velvet

Summary

velvet ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,469 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• velvet is a type of warp pile fabric^[2].
• velvet's Commons category is recorded as Velvet^[3].
• velvet's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia^[4].
• velvet's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[5].
• velvet's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work^[6].
• velvet's different from is recorded as Aksamit^[7].
• velvet's exact match is recorded as http://wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn30/04525038-n^[8].

Body

Definition and Type

velvet is a type of warp pile fabric^[2].

Influence

Things named for velvet include velouté sauce^[9], a mother sauce^[10]; Red Velvet^[11], a girl group^[12], in South Korea^[13]; and Velcro^[14], a business^[15], in Switzerland^[16], founded in 1941^[17], headquartered in United Kingdom^[18].

Why It Matters

velvet ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,469 views/month).^[1] velvet has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[19] velvet is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[20]

Entities named for velvet include velouté sauce^[9], a mother sauce^[10]; Red Velvet^[11], a girl group^[12], in South Korea^[13]; and Velcro^[14], a business^[15], in Switzerland^[16], founded in 1941^[17], headquartered in United Kingdom^[18].