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▪ I. corduroy, n. and a.|ˈkɔːdərɔɪ, -ˈrɔɪ|
Also 8 corderoy, 9 cord de roy, corde du roy.
[A name app. of English invention: either originally intended, or soon after assumed, to represent a supposed Fr. *corde du roi ‘the king's cord’; it being a kind of ‘cord’ or corded fustian.
No such name has ever been used in French: on the contrary, among a list of articles manufactured at Sens in 1807, Millin de Grandmaison Voyage d. Départ. du Midi I. 144 enumerates ‘étoffes de coton, futaines, kings-cordes’, evidently from English. Wolstenholme's Patent of 1776 mentions nearly every thing of the fustian kind except corduroy, which yet was well known by 1790. Duroy occurs with serge and drugget as a coarse woollen fabric manufactured in Somersetshire in the 18th c., but it has no apparent connexion with corduroy. A possible source has been pointed out in the English surname Corderoy.]
A. n.
1. a. A kind of coarse, thick-ribbed cotton stuff, worn chiefly by labourers or persons engaged in rough work.
1774Chadwick's Patent No. 1093, Cotton corderoys, cotton and linen corderoys. 1795[see B. 1]. c1810Rees Cycl. s.v. Fustian, The manufacture comprehends the various cotton stuffs known by the names of corduroy, velverett, velveteen, thicksett, etc. 1820Syd. Smith Lett. clxxv, No distant climes demand our corduroy, Unmatched habiliment for man and boy. 1836Ure Cotton Manuf. II. 332 Eight-shaft cord, vulgarly called corduroy. 1878Black Green Past. x. 84 He was dressed for the most part in shabby corduroy.
b. Extended as a trade name to other fabrics of similar appearance.
1884Even. Standard 28 Aug. 4/3 Corduroy is the ‘coming material’..The new corde du roy will be a dainty silken fabric, as indeed it was in the beginning. [A baseless assertion.]
2. pl. Corduroy trousers. colloq.
1787–91‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsem. xv. (1809) 127 Nothing but a pair of corderoys between him and the Horse's back. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. xii. (1889) 114 A fellow in corduroys.
3. A corduroy road (see B. 3); the structure of such a road.
1836Backwoods of Canada 114 Over these abominable corduroys the vehicle jolts, jumping from log to log. 1865Reader 30 Sept. 364/3 Long timbers both above and beneath, placed parallel to the road, and pinned to the corduroy. 1884Harper's Mag. June 105/2 The government road..in comparison with which the roughest ‘corduroy’ would appear a brilliant..innovation.
B. adj. [attrib. use of the n.]
1. Made of the fabric corduroy.
1789Loiterer 9 May 8 My boy was dressed in..corderoy breeches, and cotton stockings. 1795Hull Advertiser 10 Oct. 2/1 An old brown coat, and old corduroy breeches. 1849E. E. Napier Excurs. S. Africa II. 418 Antigropelos boots, and everlasting corduroy breeches.
2. Ribbed and furrowed like corduroy.
1865Ecclesiologist Feb. 13 Their surface was so deeply chiselled over with ‘corduroy’ work. 1891Daily News 20 May 3/1 Some of it is striped in tiny ridges, and is therefore called corduroy crêpon, though the ridges are merely miniatures of the furrows in corduroy.
3. orig. U.S. Applied to a road or causeway constructed of trunks of trees laid together transversely across a swamp or miry ground; hence, to bridges, etc. of the same construction.
1822J. Woods Eng. Prairie 219 From this town..along a rough road with many log-bridges; but some of my fellow passengers, from the state of Kentucky, called them corderoy. 1824W. N. Blane Excursion 147 A Corderoy Road consists of small trees, stripped of their boughs, and laid touching one another, without any covering of earth. 1830Galt Lawrie T. iii. i. (1849) 85 The anguish we endured from the corduroy crossways. 1837H. Martineau Soc. in Amer. (1839) I. 318 Picking our way along the swampy corduroy road. 1875tr. Comte de Paris' Civil War Amer. II. 9 The whole Federal army was at work..constructing long solid corduroy causeways through the marshy forests. 1877J. E. Taylor Tourists' Guide Suffolk 30 In the latter countries.., ‘corduroy’ roads are made..before metalled. 1882Three in Norway vii. 48 There is a corduroy bridge over the Slangen river. 1926T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (1935) vii. lxxxii. 457 Across the sandy neck from the first flat to the second we built a corduroy road of brushwood. 1941J. Gore George V xiii. 161 The pomp of royal pageantry seemed strangely out of keeping with shack villages and corduroy roads.
▪ II. corduroy, v.|kɔːdəˈrɔɪ|
[f. prec.]
trans. To form (a road) by laying tree-trunks or split logs close together transversely with the rounded surface upwards; to cross (a swamp) with a road so made. So to corduroy it.
1862W. H. Russell in Times 8 Jan. 8/6 ‘Corduroying it’ up to an enemy is tedious work. 1862B. Taylor Home & Abr. IV. 357 The marshy places are corduroyed with small logs. 1880I. L. Bird Japan II. 52 The ‘main road’..is roughly corduroyed by the roots of trees. |