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seersucker|ˈsɪəsʌkə(r)|
Also 8 sea sucker, seesucker, sirsakas, 9 searsucker.
[East Indian corruption of Pers. shīr o shakkar lit. ‘milk and sugar’, transf. ‘a striped linen garment’ (Vullers Lex. Pers.-Lat.).]
A thin linen, or sometimes cotton, fabric, striped and with a crimped or puckered surface, of Indian manufacture. Also (and now chiefly) applied to imitations made elsewhere. Also, a garment made of seersucker. Also attrib. or as adj.
1722C. Carroll in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1925) XX. 64 To Corded Dimothy..To I Sea Sucker D°. 1736Virginia Gaz. 15 Oct. 4/2 Ran away..a Servant Woman..took..a Seesucker Gown. 1757Guyon's New Hist. E. Indies II. 145, 600 pieces sirsakas. 1757in Dalrymple's Oriental Repertory (1793) I. 203, I have with me..as a present for the King of Ava..2 Pieces of Seersuckers. 1866Daily Tel. 29 Jan. 5/3, I have made acquaintance with the Spanish soldier..in Havana, where in summer he is sensibly clad in a suit of seersucker. 1872Howells Wedd. Journ. vi. (1882) 145 The clerk, in a seersucker coat. 1901E. Singleton Furniture of Our Forefathers II. 631 The materials used for upholstering in the seventeenth century were camak,..searsucker [etc.]. 1958B. Malamud Magic Barrel 124 He dried himself and dressed. When he came forth in his seersucker, she offered salami. 1964Punch 29 Apr. p. xiv/2 For men, striped cotton seersucker jackets. 1975B. Garfield Hopscotch vii. 77 A trim sandy man..in the regulation seersucker. 1981L. Stephan Murder or Not vi. 40 Her seersucker shift..with its thin blue and white stripes. |