A cloth with a nap.
Nap is the raised (fuzzy) surface on cloth. Velvet in one of these clothes with nap. Nap can also mean a felt cloth.
In the 14th century, the word described the roughness of woven cloth before it was cut.[1][2]
- ↑ "Nap". Encyclopedia Britannica Eleventh Edition. 1911.
- ↑ "Nap." The Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. 1989.
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