Miller wrote: “To dream of velvet, portends very successful enterprises.” Compare 4 historical dream books.
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These are the authors’ historical interpretations. Their forecasts and period judgments are preserved as source material, not as predictions or established meanings for your dream.
Gustavus Hindman Miller
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Velvet · Heading 2111; source lines 23203–23214 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of velvet, portends very successful enterprises. If you wear it, some distinction will be conferred upon you.
To see old velvet, means your prosperity will suffer from your extreme pride.
If a young woman dreams that she is clothed in velvet garments, it denotes that she will have honors bestowed upon her, and the choice between several wealthy lovers.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Velvet · Heading 828; source line 5088 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If a lady dreams of new velvet dresses, it foretells poverty: velvet cushions, slippers or bonnets, are signs of waste and want. 36,
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Velvet · Dream section, heading 544; source lines 1964–1966 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you trade with a stranger in velvet and other silks, is a sign of profit and joy.
Katherine Taylor Craig
The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern · New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition
Velvet · Printed p. 261; NLM OCR lines 12364–12365 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
Honor and riches (Artemidorus).
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