Usage examples "velveteen":
- Clothed in European kit, wearing velveteen trousers and with only a cap for head- covering, these men showed no signs of distress, or even discomfort. - "The Panama Canal and its Makers", Vaughan Cornish.
- The keeper took it out of the big pocket inside his velveteen jacket, and held it up, twisting and writhing to get free and down into one of the rabbit- holes. - "Burr Junior", G. Manville Fenn.
- The face of this white- haired man is intelligent and open, announcing good sense and honesty, enlivened by a touch of rustic humor; he wears a shooting- jacket of green cloth, and long gaiters of tan- colored leather, which half conceal his black velveteen breeches. - "The Wandering Jew, Book II.", Eugene Sue.
