Corduroy Definition
kôrdə-roi
corduroys
noun
A heavy cotton fabric with a piled, velvety surface, ribbed vertically.
Webster's New World
Trousers made of this fabric.
Webster's New World
A road made of logs laid down crosswise.
American Heritage
adjective
Made of, or ribbed like, corduroy.
Webster's New World
Made of logs laid crosswise.
A corduroy road.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
verb
To build (a road) of logs laid down crosswise.
American Heritage
To make (a road) by laying down split logs or tree-trunks over a marsh, swamp etc.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
Origin of Corduroy
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Origin uncertain. Likely from cord + duroy (“name of a 17th century coarse fabric made in England”). Likely not from French corde du roi ("cloth of the king"), which is unattested in French, where the term for the "cloth of the king" was velours côtelé.
From Wiktionary
Probably from cord obsolete duroy a coarse woolen fabric
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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