(n.) A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet.
Example Sentences:
(1) The three rooms are plush and contemporary with tartan trim.
(2) The first-floor lounge is decorated in plush deep pink, with a mix of contemporary and neoclassical decor, and an antique dining table and chandelier.
(3) Customers at her plush boutique in central Cairo are offered a choice between chocolates coated with his face and others embossed with messages of adulation.
(4) We meet in a plush Mayfair hotel suite in the early evening, by which time he is sipping a cup of Starbuck's coffee, struggling to keep his eyes open but still unfailingly polite and professional.
(5) The pictures of the former president's plush compound – his vintage car collection and fancy pheasants, the private restaurant and golf course – have struck a chord in the same way the palaces of Ben Ali and the wealth of Hosni Mubarak angered the people of Tunisia and Egypt.
(6) Meanwhile the plush London offices of all his overlapping enterprises are right across from the US embassy in Grosvenor Square, as if to taunt critics who claim he is America's poodle.
(7) While in office, Bloomberg enthusiastically oversaw the rezoning of almost 40% of New York , a process that changed once-industrial areas into plush residential zones or parks, and created public spaces.
(8) And then smile calmly at her back as she switches on the kettle and enjoy the gentle sensation of a breeze wafting through your plush and generous under-arm hair.
(9) Mary, by email Well, plush tweeds and thick knits are absolutely essential.
(10) They sport new reports, plush offices and branded mineral water far more lavish than the departments that spawned them.
(11) Risdale to the rescue JMW Solicitors is staging its inaugural corporate recovery and insolvency conference on 15 September, to be held at a plush hotel in Manchester.
(12) During his time at the foreign ministry, in a plush building on the banks of the Nile, Moussa earned considerable respect.
(13) Quite why the College of Social Work decided to stage its long-awaited official launch in the plush London premises of the Institute of Directors is an intriguing question.
(14) There is luxury marble tiling and plush sofas, and a sign on the door alerts residents to the fact that the concierge is available.
(15) Even a fox surprising you by your front door has this ephemeral effect.” Bamba Issa still exists, at least in name, but today it’s a plush-looking beachside restaurant , where inevitable systematic exploitation goes unaddressed.
(16) She's dragged herself from unloved brat to brass to millionaire (via some dead husbands, but let's be real, a good few Guardian readers would do the same if a plush three-bed Victorian terrace was their prize).
(17) They're both suited, booted and sitting in plush red armchairs.
(18) The neat and tidy doubles have tasteful plush chocolate-coloured furnishings and polished wooden floors, while the more spacious deluxe rooms with wooden beams come with fireplaces and balconies with street views.
(19) The plush mansion is in the Hancock Park district, just a few miles from the A-list havens of West Hollywood and Beverly Hills.
(20) A sequel to The Stud, The Bitch continues the story of Fontaine Khaled, who has "an Arab millionaire among her yesterdays and hard-gambling Nico for all her tomorrows", as she "calls the shots from her plush limos and black satin sheets".
Slush
Definition:
(n.) Soft mud.
(n.) A mixture of snow and water; half-melted snow.
(n.) A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.
(n.) The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.
(n.) A mixture of white lead and lime, with which the bright parts of machines, such as the connecting rods of steamboats, are painted to be preserved from oxidation.
(v. t.) To smear with slush or grease; as, to slush a mast.
(v. t.) To paint with a mixture of white lead and lime.
Example Sentences:
(1) Der Spiegel magazine reported on Friday that Germany’s bid committee had tapped into a slush fund of €6.7m to buy votes at world football’s governing body Fifa.
(2) The development of postoperative CD was related to topical cooling with slushed ice and lower myocardial temperature of the left ventricle, but not to kinds of diseases, duration of aortic cross-clamp, or the distribution of RC-CBCP evaluated from myocardial temperature at the end of initial infusion of cold cardioplegic solution.
(3) Bárcenas denies any wrongdoing and when allegations about the slush fund first surfaced, in January 2013, he received a text message of support.
(4) Cold air storage appears to provide better lung preservation than hypothermic immersion in ice slush.
(5) Still, as the crisp white stuff beloved of children turns into freezing grey slush, it's worth another laugh at the old British Rail " wrong type of snow " excuse.
(6) The prime minister announced on Monday the establishment of the inquiry to be headed by the former High Court judge John Dyson Heydon with a focus on union slush funds, bribery and improper fundraising.
(7) He said Jackson used $284,000 in the National Health Development Account, a slush fund she set up in 2003, without authorisation.
(8) The fiber-dimensional hygrometer yielded mean aw values and precision estimates that did not differ significantly from those obtained with the electrical hygrometers for (NH4)2SO4slush, KNO3 slush, sweetened condensed milk, pancake syrup, and cheese spread.
(9) This latest saga has left Territorians with questions about the integrity of the Territory’s decision makers,” she told media in Darwin, citing a recent scandal around an alleged Country-Liberal party slush fund as well as the police troubles.
(10) Earlier: The Pentagon’s slush fund is arming a War Zone on Main Street – let’s end the local-cop addiction to backyard battle
(11) Berlusconi's remarks, combined with allegations at the weekend of a colossal slush fund at a bank traditionally close to the left, looked set to electrify a hitherto lacklustre campaign.
(12) What Bárcenas claims is that the People's party has been running a slush fund for nearly two decades.
(13) Luis Bárcenas, the PP’s former treasurer, is accused of organising a slush fund for senior party members, allegedly raised through the handing out of dodgy public sector contracts.
(14) But the latest scandal has added to longstanding fears that the company is treated as a tool for politicians to reward loyalists and generate slush funds to buy off potential opponents.
(15) One witness who gave evidence to the SFO, Peter Gardiner, a director of a travel agent used to make alleged slush fund payments, said last night: "It's an interesting signal that this gives to industry and the world I am thinking of the hundreds of hours I have wasted and all the personal problems this has caused me."
(16) Coronary artery bypass surgery was performed on a 58-year-old female under cold cardioplegia with topical ice slush cooling.
(17) Spiegel said that both Franz Beckenbauer, who headed the bidding committee, and Wolfgang Niersbach, the current president of the German football federation (DFB), as well as other high-ranking football officials were aware of the slush fund by 2005 at the latest.
(18) There was talk of Josef Ackermann, the head of Deutsche Bank, taking over, but Ackermann's hopes have been dented somewhat by recent accusations of an involvement in dirty slush funds .
(19) This is a get-out-of-jail card for councils that were using the money as a social care slush-fund.
(20) Last Thursday the CLP shut down an inquiry into the past two decades of political donations in the NT, as well as the nature of the Foundation 51 organisation – alleged to be a CLP slush fund – claiming it would be “unwieldy” and overly costly for the territory.