Plush

Plush (Fr. peluche), a variety of cloth woven like velvet, but differing from it in having a longer and more open pile. Formerly this pile was of goat's hair or worsted, but now it is largely made of silk, with a cotton backing, and sometimes the whole fabric is of silk. Silk plush is the material used for the outside of gentlemen's 'silk' hats, and is called hatter's plush. It is also worked in coloured silks for articles of ladies' attire and for covering furniture; but plush is used par excellence for livery knee-breeches.