WordDisk
  • Reading
    • Shortcuts
      •   Home
      •   All Articles
      •   Read from Another Site
      Sources
      • Wikipedia
      • Simple Wikipedia
      • VOA Learning English
      • Futurity
      • The Conversation
      • MIT News
      • Harvard Gazette
      • Cambridge News
      • YDS/YÖKDİL Passages
      Topics
      • Technology
      • Engineering
      • Business
      • Economics
      • Human
      • Health
      • Energy
      • Biology
      • Nature
      • Space
  •  Log in
  •  Sign up
3.14
History
Add

plush noun [ plʌʃ ]

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

plush adjective

• richly luxurious and expensive.
• "a plush Mayfair flat"
Similar: luxurious, luxury, deluxe, sumptuous, palatial, lavish, lavishly appointed, gorgeous, opulent, splendid, magnificent, lush, rich, costly, expensive, upmarket, fancy, stylish, grandiose, posh, ritzy, swanky, plushy, classy, glitzy, swish, swank, palatian, Lucullan,
Opposite: plain, austere, cheap,
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.


2025 WordDisk