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nounməˈdrɑːsməˈdras mass noun1A strong cotton fabric with colourful stripes or checks. as modifier a short-sleeved madras shirt Example sentencesExamples - He's wearing a madras hat, plaid women's slacks that go down only as far as his shins, and a plaid jacket with two drooping flowers in his lapel.
- For women's wear, the firm generated interest with its crushed voile in small plaids and stronger madras plaids, noted Luc Wende, marketing manager.
- It consists of a madras head-tie and a skirt with lace petticoats draped at the sides.
- I don't remember how long the first madras trend lasted - just a summer somewhere in the '60s, maybe?
- Stripes and plaids, mostly madras style, were in both prints and yam dyes.
- When I turned back, he was still standing at the stage, big as life, in that ugly madras jacket.
- They looked about sixty or so, weekenders, he in jeans and madras shirt, she in a white t-shirt under summer dress, both with that healthy gleam you see in older folks a lot these days, all active-minds and fiberful-digestions.
- The costume features madras fabric, introduced from India after Antigua won independence.
- Eastern Ijo memorial arts, including the funeral bed shown in the preceding gallery, which is elaborately decorated with Indian madras, also reflect the eclectic approach taken by Delta artists.
- He wore a Shazi polo shirt - a mixture of black and madras cloth.
- Rose had used babysitting money to buy a new pair of pedal pushers and a madras plaid cropped top.
- I close my eyes and, once more, imagine him standing before me, all tan muscles, adorable grin, tousled brown hair, and sea-green eyes, fingering the hem of his madras button-down in that cute nervous way he has.
- They wear a George, or madras, wrapper and carry brass bells.
- Afterwards, we stapled madras tissue (it's variegated with beautiful colors) over their line drawing paper.
- For the prepsters, madras returns in a variety of colours.
- Ashanti kept his head tied with a madras bandana.
- Meanwhile, Sportmax went for 1970s romance with long hippie skirts in madras.
- On the yacht, you'll have the true believers in capitalism (in their madras jackets), and on dry land, everyone else - hurling insults at them.
2A dish of meat, fish, or vegetables in a hot curry sauce. Example sentencesExamples - Just when you think you couldn't possibly see another choice, a new page opens up in the menu, hitting you with dhansak, dupiaza, madras and vindaloo.
- For the main courses, Emily chose to wrap her fireproof tonsils around a king prawn madras, with onion rice.
- There were about 15 main dishes in total, including about half-a-dozen for vegetarians, with all the sauces being pretty much run-of-the-mill, such as korma, madras and jalfrezi.
- A balti or madras probably contains the most turmeric, but there are health benefits in all curries.
- After these there are nine chicken varieties including a madras, korma and vindaloo.
Origin Mid 19th century: by association with Madras. proper nounməˈdrasməˈdrɑːs 1 former name (until 1995) for Chennai 2 former name (until 1968) for the state of Tamil Nadu
Rhymes brass, carse, class, coup de grâce, farce, glass, grass, Grasse, impasse, Kars, kick-ass, kvass, Laplace, Maas, outclass, pass, sparse, stained glass, surpass, upper class, volte-face noun A strong, fine-textured cotton fabric, typically patterned with colorful stripes or checks. Example sentencesExamples - They looked about sixty or so, weekenders, he in jeans and madras shirt, she in a white t-shirt under summer dress, both with that healthy gleam you see in older folks a lot these days, all active-minds and fiberful-digestions.
- It consists of a madras head-tie and a skirt with lace petticoats draped at the sides.
- Afterwards, we stapled madras tissue (it's variegated with beautiful colors) over their line drawing paper.
- Eastern Ijo memorial arts, including the funeral bed shown in the preceding gallery, which is elaborately decorated with Indian madras, also reflect the eclectic approach taken by Delta artists.
- I don't remember how long the first madras trend lasted - just a summer somewhere in the '60s, maybe?
- For women's wear, the firm generated interest with its crushed voile in small plaids and stronger madras plaids, noted Luc Wende, marketing manager.
- On the yacht, you'll have the true believers in capitalism (in their madras jackets), and on dry land, everyone else - hurling insults at them.
- When I turned back, he was still standing at the stage, big as life, in that ugly madras jacket.
- I close my eyes and, once more, imagine him standing before me, all tan muscles, adorable grin, tousled brown hair, and sea-green eyes, fingering the hem of his madras button-down in that cute nervous way he has.
- He wore a Shazi polo shirt - a mixture of black and madras cloth.
- Stripes and plaids, mostly madras style, were in both prints and yam dyes.
- The costume features madras fabric, introduced from India after Antigua won independence.
- They wear a George, or madras, wrapper and carry brass bells.
- Meanwhile, Sportmax went for 1970s romance with long hippie skirts in madras.
- For the prepsters, madras returns in a variety of colours.
- He's wearing a madras hat, plaid women's slacks that go down only as far as his shins, and a plaid jacket with two drooping flowers in his lapel.
- Rose had used babysitting money to buy a new pair of pedal pushers and a madras plaid cropped top.
- Ashanti kept his head tied with a madras bandana.
Origin Mid 19th century: by association with Madras. proper noun 1 former name (until 1995) for Chennai 2 former name (until 1968) of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu
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