Word: velvets
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...earliest book known which bears the date of its publication can be seen at the Royal Library at Windsor. It is a copy of the "Psalterieum" printed by Faust and Schoeffer in 1457. The binding is blue velvet with the royal crown and cypher on the sides in solid gold, and embossed gold cordices and loops...
...romance was with us once more. The year of grace, 1386, is drawing toward a close, and his Royal Highness, Ruprecht I, is celebrating the founding of his new university by a grand procession through the streets of Heidelberg. Here comes the herald, clad in velvet, and bearing aloft the yellow banner and black eagles of the Prince. Then follow four trumpeters, braying right lustily, albeit somewhat dolorously, upon their slender brass horns. Six knights in armor, with iron helmets and prodigious spears are followed by a company of foot soldiers, whose antique swords and oral shields call Walter Scott...
...ribbon in the button-hole of each man; the Yale men as of old, wore light blue; the Harvard men, pale pink, crimson having been discarded long before as being too loud. The ball used was perfectly round, about half the size of a Rugby, and covered with velvet of delicate tint...
...with which I have had the most familiar acquaintance from my very earliest recollection. It is a sofa, in the correct acceptance of the term. It is not a "lounge." Its framework is of some dark wood, well begrimed with cigarette smoke and ashes. Its cushion is covered with velvet carpet of an ancient pattern, the figures of which, where not worn off entirely, seem to be made up of a conglomeration of enormous roses and tree trunks. To look at this aged sofa, you would say that it could not possibly be comfortable...
...dress; the first, which is worn on public occasions, is a gown of purple damask silk, richly ornamented with gold lace. The second is a black silk gown, with full sleeves. This is worn as an "every day" dress. With both these is worn the regulation "mortarboard" of black velvet, with gold tassel...