corduroy
IPA: kˈɔrdɝɔɪ
noun
- A heavy fabric, usually made of cotton, with vertical ribs.
- (obsolete, Ireland, slang) Cheap and poor-quality whiskey.
- A pattern on snow resulting from the use of a snow groomer to pack snow and improve skiing, snowboarding and snowmobile trail conditions. Corduroy is widely regarded as a good surface on which to ski or ride.
verb
- To make (a road) by laying down split logs or tree-trunks over a marsh, swamp etc.
adjective
- Of a road, path, etc., paved with split or round logs laid crosswise side by side.
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Examples of "corduroy" in Sentences
- I believe in corduroy evening wear.
- Sort of like lint to corduroy pants.
- Other names are often used for corduroy.
- Could also throw in telford and corduroy.
- Corduroy continued as a trend through 2001.
- He's all rumpled corduroy, stains on his shirt,
- Corduroy is, in essence, a ridged form of velvet.
- As a fabric, corduroy is considered a durable cloth.
- "Suppose I were to dress in corduroy and run a grist mill."
- The man in corduroy and dirty neckerchief no longer addressed me as
- Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy evening wear.
- The road was roughly hewn from the woods and was of corduroy construction.
- To this day I can feel myself almost swooning with shame as I stood, a very small, round-faced boy in short corduroy knickers, before the two women.
- Where House Republican leader John Boehner belongs to a golf club that cost 75K to join, wears thousand dollar suits, and travels on corporate jets, he campaigns in corduroy shirts.
- At 06.27 hours on 1 January 1975, Alfred Archibald Jones was dressed in corduroy and sat in a fume-filled Cavalier Musketeer Estate face down on the steering wheel, hoping the judgement would not be too heavy upon him.
- The populace had grown so hardened to artists that gruff-voiced lesbians in corduroy breeches and young men in Grecian or medieval costume could walk the streets without attracting a glance, and along the Seine banks Notre Dame it was almost impossible to pick ones way between the sketching-stools.
- Corduroy's origins date back to the late 1700s England, not France as is widely believed, says James Pruden, a spokesman for Cotton Inc., a research and promotion nonprofit headquartered in Cary, N.C. The term corduroy is most likely a combination of the words "cord" and the now obsolete "duroy" or "deroy," meaning a woolen garment, he says.
- Here he was, dressed in corduroy trousers and a light-blue shirt; concentrating, eyes half closed or fully shut; defined gestures; confident breath; fingers flat on the open holes of his clarinet; the muscles of his mouth tight, yet not puffing out his cheeks around the mouthpiece; his upper lip surprisingly mobile, at times seeming to inhale and swallow the top of the reed and at times curling back as if to convey its decision to keep its distance, disavow that nasty instrument, and, all of a sudden, with sovereign authority, literally cut off its breath …