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   Plush

   /pləSH/

   

   noun

   • 1. a rich fabric of silk, cotton, wool, or a combination of these, with a long, soft nap: "deep-buttoned plush upholstery"

   adjective

   • 1. richly luxurious and expensive: "the plush chrome and leather office"

   Word Origin late 16th century: from obsolete French pluche, contraction of peluche, from Old French peluchier ‘to pluck’, based on Latin pilus ‘hair’. The sense ‘luxurious’ dates from the 1920s.

   Derivatives

   • 1. plushly adverb
   • 2. plushness noun

   Scrabble Points: 10

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