Velvet (disambiguation)
Appearance
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Velvet is a particular kind of woven tufted fabric.
Velvet may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]Fictional characters
[edit]- Velvet, one of the five main characters of Odin Sphere
- Velvet Crowe, one of the main protagonists of Tales of Berseria
- Velvet Hoofstrong, one of the main characters in the video game Them's Fightin' Herds
Literature
[edit]- Velvet (magazine), a pornographic magazine
- Velvet (novel), a 2016 novel by Palestinian author Huzama Habayeb
- Velvet, a comic book series by Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting
Music
[edit]Groups and labels
[edit]- The Velvet Underground, a former American rock band formed in 1964 in New York City
- The Velvets (1959–1962), a doo-wop group
- Velvet Revolver (2002–2008), an American hard rock supergroup
Albums
[edit]- Velvet (Wink album), 1990 album by Japanese band Wink
- Velvet (EP), a 1992 cassette EP by the Toadies
- Velvet (Stoney LaRue album), 2011 album by Stoney LaRue
- Velvet (Adam Lambert album), 2020 album by Adam Lambert
- The Velvet, a 2016 EP by Red Velvet
Songs
[edit]- "Velvet" (Savoy song), a song by Savoy from the 1996 album, Mary Is Coming
- "Velvet", a song by Miss Kittin from the 2002 album On the Road
- "Velvet", a song by Fergie from the 2006 album The Dutchess
- "Velvet" (The Big Pink song), a song by The Big Pink from the 2009 album A Brief History of Love
- "Velvet" (Chris Jamison song), a 2014 song by Chris Jamison
Television
[edit]- Velvet (TV channel), a women-targeted general entertainment channel
- Velvet (TV series), a Spanish TV series
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]- National Velvet (film), a 1944 American film
- Velvet (film), a 1984 American TV film
- Velvet (musical), an Australian musical partly based on New York's Studio 54
- Velvet (Sirius XM), a contemporary pop music channel on the Sirius XM subscription service
- Velvet Film, a Germany-based film production company founded by Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck in 1986
- Velvet painting, a type of painting distinguished by the use of velvet (usually black velvet) as the support, in place of canvas, paper, or similar materials
Biology
[edit]- Velvet (fish disease), a common disease of tropical aquarium fish
- Velvet (plant), several plants in the genus Verbascum, especially V. thapsus
- Velvet antler, a developmental stage in a deer's antlers
Other uses
[edit]- Velvet (bus company) based in Eastleigh, near Southampton, in England
- Velvet (dog), a dog who saved three mountain climbers on Mount Hood, Oregon
- Velvet (music venue), an alternative music club in Rimini, Italy
- Velvet (singer) (born 1975), Swedish singer
- Velvet, Washington, a community in the United States
- Velvet assembler, a set of algorithms for genomic sequence assembly
- Velvet Divorce, the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993
- Velvet Revolution, the nonviolent overthrow of the communist government in Czechoslovakia in 1989
- Velvet Ice Cream Company, an ice cream company in Ohio