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Also Inflected form of feel

felt

UK/ˈfɛlt/ US/ˈfɛlt/ very common
noun (1) verb (3)

noun

1.

verb

1.

mat together and make felt-like

  • “felt the wool”
2.

cover with felt

  • “felt a cap”
3.

change texture so as to become matted and felt-like

  • “The fabric felted up after several washes”
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Origin

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.

Phrases

  • coated felt sheet
  • felt grain
  • felt scale
  • felt-tip pen
  • glass felt
  • saturated felt

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