velours

velours

1. plural of velour

• louvers, louvres

From Old French velor, an alteration of Old French velos, either from velu (“hairy”) + -os (“-ous”), or a borrowing from Old Occitan velos; either way, from Latin villus. Cognate with English velvet and a doublet of villeux.

• IPA^(key): /və.luʁ/

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• Rhymes: -uʁ

velours m (plural velours)

1. velvet

• “velours” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
• “velours” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.

• survole, survolé
• voleurs