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black velvet
noun
- a cocktail made with stout and champagne.
black velvet
noun
- a mixture of stout and champagne in equal proportions
- slang.Aboriginal women as sexual partners
Word History and Origins
Origin of black velvet1
Example Sentences
One hat in the Press Room is designed from black velvet with a violin perched on top of a skull cap.
A black velvet jacket in an Oscar Wilde cut appeared a suitable option.
Round her neck depended from a black velvet band, strings of diamonds of great size and magnificence.
She wore a neat tailor-made dress of brown cloth, and a small black velvet hat with a big gold buckle.
We got Fanny a dress on the sly, gaudy black velvet and Duchesse lace.
Seized with affright, the princess recoiled to where an ivory crucifix gleamed on a black velvet background.
The silvery whiteness of the old man's beard was heightened by a robe of black velvet; his brow was like a marble dome.
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