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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024cor•du•roy /ˈkɔrdəˌrɔɪ, ˌkɔrdəˈrɔɪ/USA pronunciation n. - Textiles a cotton fabric with raised ridges like cords running lengthwise on the surface:[uncountable]The pants were of gray corduroy.
- Clothingcorduroys, [plural] trousers made of this fabric:On Saturdays he always wore a sweater and an old pair of corduroys.
adj. - of, relating to, or resembling corduroy:a corduroy jacket.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024cor•du•roy (kôr′də roi′, kôr′də roi′),USA pronunciation n. - Textilesa cotton-filling pile fabric with lengthwise cords or ridges.
- Clothing corduroys, trousers made of this fabric.
adj. - of, pertaining to, or resembling corduroy.
- Civil Engineeringconstructed of logs laid together transversely, as a road across swampy ground.
v.t. - Civil Engineeringto form (a road or the like) by laying logs transversely.
- Civil Engineeringto make a corduroy road across or along.
- 1780–90; perh. cord (compare cords) + duroy, deroy (now obsolete) a woolen fabric originating in west, western England; later taken as French cord du roy the king's cords, though the fabric had no connection with France
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: corduroy /ˈkɔːdəˌrɔɪ; ˌkɔːdəˈrɔɪ/ n - a heavy cotton pile fabric with lengthways ribs
Etymology: 18th Century: perhaps from the proper name Corderoy |