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Fleece vs. Velour

Fleece and Velour Definitions

Fleece

The coat of wool of a sheep or similar animal.

Velour

A closely napped fabric resembling velvet, used chiefly for clothing and upholstery.

Fleece

The yield of wool shorn from a sheep at one time.

Velour

A felt resembling velvet, used in making hats.

Fleece

A soft woolly covering or mass.

Velour

A knit fabric similar to velvet, but usually somewhat coarser.
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Fleece

A soft, warm, lightweight, usually synthetic fabric with a deep pile, used primarily for clothing and blankets.

Velour

Heavy fabric that resembles velvet

Fleece

A garment, especially a shirt or jacket, made of such fabric.

Fleece

To defraud of money or property; swindle.

Fleece

To shear the fleece from.

Fleece

To cover with a fleece or similar covering.
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Fleece

(uncountable) Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal

Fleece

(uncountable) Insulating skin with the wool attached

Fleece

(countable) A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher sheen.

Fleece

(countable) An insulating wooly jacket

Fleece

(roofing) Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer.

Fleece

Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
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Fleece

The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.

Fleece

(transitive) To con or trick (someone) out of money.

Fleece

(transitive) To shear the fleece from (a sheep or other animal).
During spring shearing we have to fleece all the sheep in just a few days.

Fleece

(transitive) To cover with, or as if with, wool.

Fleece

The entire coat of wool that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time.
Who shore meLike a tame wether, all my precious fleece.

Fleece

Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.

Fleece

The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.

Fleece

To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.

Fleece

To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.
Whilst pope and prince shared the wool betwixt them, the people were finely fleeced.

Fleece

To spread over as with wool.

Fleece

The wool of a sheep or similar animal

Fleece

Tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on; used for clothing

Fleece

A soft bulky fabric with deep pile; used chiefly for clothing

Fleece

Outer coat of especially sheep and yaks

Fleece

Rip off; ask an unreasonable price

Fleece

Shear the wool from;
Shear sheep

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