It reflected the figure of a slim girl wearing a blue serge skirt, a blue jersey coat and a grey velour hat-a very pretty girl indeed, her colour heightened by the humid night air.
"The Orchard of Tears"
Sax Rohmer
His soul was in that walk and in that eye; it could be read-the soul of a bravo of fortune, living on his wits and his velour, asking no favours and granting no quarter.
"Penrod and Sam"
Booth Tarkington
Cheek to cheek in their dining room of too-carved oak, twin shadow-boxed paintings of Fruit and Fish, the cut-glass punch bowl with the hooked-on cups, the cotton palm, casually rigid velour drapes, the elusive floor bell, they huddled, these two, whose eyes were branded with the scars of what they had looked upon, and a slow, a vast anger began to rise in Mosher, as if the blood in his throat were choking him, and a surge of it, almost purple, rose out of his collar and stained his face.
"The Vertical City"
Fannie Hurst