English-German translations for velvet

SamtenWir begrüßen jedoch die „„samtene Revolution“„. However, we welcome the ‘velvet revolution’. Im Allgemeinen brechen Diktaturen eher durch einen Schlag als durch samtene Revolutionen zusammen. Dictatorships generally fall with a bang rather than by means of velvet revolutions. Ohne sie und ohne die Revolutionen von 1956, 1968 und 1980 hätte es in Europa niemals die "samtene Revolution" gegeben, die sich Ende der 1980er Jahre vollzogen hat. Without them, without the 1956, 1968 and 1980 revolutions, Europe would never have been able to experience that 'velvet revolution' of the end of the 1980s.

A closely woven fabric with a thick short pile on one side
Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers
The drug dextromethorphan
To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture
To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying
To remove the velvet from a deer's antlers
To soften; to mitigate
to retract
Made of velvet
peaceful, carried out without violence; especially as pertaining to the peaceful breakup of Czechoslovakia

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