velvety

Etymology

From velvet + -y.

adj

1. (also figurative) Like velvet; soft, smooth, soothing.
   The mouse was a warm, velvety weight in my hand.
   The crooner had a velvety voice that made the ladies swoon.
   As he came down the huge velvety paws caught him as gently as a mother’s arms and set him (right way up, too) on the ground. 1951, C. S. Lewis, chapter 11, in Prince Caspian, Collins, published 1998
   1964, Elie Wiesel, The Town Beyond the Wall (1962), translated by Stephen Becker, New York: Atheneum, 1964, p. 104, Tangier was washed in a velvety bluish twilight.
   By now it was dark, velvety dark with a moon, a darkness pinpricked by the lights from the landing place now drawing rapidly closer. 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 144