Noun: felt
Sample Sentences
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It were a delicate stratagem to shoe
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A troop of horse with felt. [c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:]
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You'll notice that all the illustrations are done in different media: some with pencil crayons, some with felts, some with paint, some with chalk pastels. [1989, Anne D. Forester, Margaret Reinhard, The Learners' Way, page 116:]
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To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose. [1707, John Mortimer, The whole art of husbandry:]
Nouns inflected like felt
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English felt, from Old English felt, from Proto-West Germanic *felt (compare Dutch vilt, German Filz, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish filt, French feutre), from Proto-Indo-European *pilto, *pilso 'felt' (compare Latin pilleus (“felt”, adjective), Old Church Slavonic плъсть (plŭstĭ), Albanian plis, Ancient Greek πῖλος (pîlos)), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil. See: Middle English Nouns '
felt', Old English Nouns '
felt', Dutch Nouns '
vilt', German Nouns '
Filz', French Nouns '
feutre', Latin Nouns '
pilleus'.
Verbs referencing "felt"
German Nouns
Filz, French Nouns
feutre, Ancient Greek Nouns
πῖλος.