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corduroy

(kɔːʳdərɔɪ)
Word forms: plural corduroys
1. uncountable noun
Corduroy is thick cotton cloth with parallel raised lines on the outside.
...a corduroy jacket.
2. plural noun
Corduroys are trousers made out of corduroy.

corduroy in British English

(ˈkɔːdəˌrɔɪ, ˌkɔːdəˈrɔɪ)
noun
a. 
a heavy cotton pile fabric with lengthways ribs
b. 
(as modifier)
a corduroy coat
Word origin
C18: perhaps from the proper name Corderoy

corduroy in American English

(ˈkɔrdəˌrɔɪ)
noun
1. 
a heavy cotton fabric with a piled, velvety surface, ribbed vertically
2.  [pl.]
trousers made of this fabric
adjective
3. 
made of, or ribbed like, corduroy
4.  US
made of logs laid crosswise
a corduroy road
Word origin
prob. < cord + obs. duroy, a coarse fabric formerly produced in England: hence, corded duroy

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Examples of 'corduroy' in a sentence
corduroy

His voluminous corduroy trousers were frequently held up by bright red braces.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
He will wear a tweed jacket and corduroy trousers.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Grow tomatoes and wear corduroy trousers and die?
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
He wears dull grey wool and boring brown corduroy.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The solution is a corduroy jacket cut like a jeans jacket.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The morning after the night of the corduroy sofa was awkward.
The Sun (2011)
Fat toffs wearing pink corduroy trousers.
The Sun (2013)
She reached out again and touched a man's leg in corduroy trousers.
Christianity Today (2000)
He was instantly recognisable with his corduroy suits, handmade shoes and a permanently lit cigar.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
He wears a corduroy jacket with elbow patches, and jeans.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
I asked a bearded man in a corduroy suit when the next lecture was due to begin.
The Sun (2012)
I like trousers and jackets made of corduroy and feel most comfortable in browns and greens.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
It led to the smallest room, with a brown corduroy sofa bed that filled the room when folded out.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
I got a corduroy jacket and trousers, and a pair of boots.
Max Arthur Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who WereThere (2006)
He is wearing green corduroy trousers, faded around the knee, and green and white trainers.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
He wore indigo jeans and a brown corduroy jacket, and I caught a faint but pleasant hint of aftershave.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
If you saw him walking along the street without his guitar case, just in his corduroy jacket and jeans, you would think he was kind of lost.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)

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corduroy

British English: corduroy /ˈkɔːdəˌrɔɪ; ˌkɔːdəˈrɔɪ/ NOUN
Corduroy is thick cotton cloth with parallel raised lines on the outside.
...a corduroy jacket.
  • American English: corduroy
  • Arabic: قُمَاش مُضَلَّعَة
  • Brazilian Portuguese: veludo cotelê
  • Chinese: 灯芯绒
  • Croatian: samt
  • Czech: manšestr
  • Danish: fløjl
  • Dutch: corduroy
  • European Spanish: pana
  • Finnish: vakosametti
  • French: velours côtelé
  • German: Kordsamt
  • Greek: κοτλέ
  • Italian: velluto a coste
  • Japanese: コーデュロイ
  • Korean: 코르덴
  • Norwegian: kordfløyel
  • Polish: sztruks
  • European Portuguese: bombazina
  • Romanian: raiat
  • Russian: вельвет
  • Latin American Spanish: pana
  • Swedish: manchestertyg
  • Thai: สักหลาดที่เป็นริ้ว
  • Turkish: fitilli kadife
  • Ukrainian: вельвет
  • Vietnamese: vải nhung kẻ

Chinese translation of 'corduroy'

corduroy

(ˈkɔːdərɔɪ)

n (u)

  1. 灯(燈)心绒(絨) (dēngxīnróng)

cpd

  1. [jacket, trousers etc] 灯(燈)心绒(絨) (dēngxīnróng)
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