A TEXTILE or a kind of CLOTH, plush was made of SILK or HAIR, COTTON or WOOL or other material (or any two of these combined) with a nap that was longer and softer than that of VELVET. Montgomery suggests that it was a speciality of FRANCE and introduced in the late seventeenth century [Montgomery (1984)], but Kerridge shows that it was being made in this country at Reading by the mid 1680s and th