VELVET GLOVE

PRONUNCIATION: (VEL-vet gluhv)

MEANING: noun: An outward appearance of gentleness concealing an underlying firmness or resolve.

ETYMOLOGY: From velvet, from Old French veluotte, from velu (velvety), from Latin villus (tuft) + glove, from Old English glof. Earliest documented use: 1850.
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VELVET GROVE - an orchard of velvet trees

ELVET GLOVE - hand covering worn by the King on formal occasions (i.e. he wasn't playing the guitar)

VELVET LOVE - the fondness of teens and pre-teens for a horse-loving 12-year-old, based on a story by Enid Bagnold and a 1940s movie with Mickey Rooney and a young Elizabeth Taylor