madras

IPA: mˈædrʌs

Root Word: Madras

Former name of Chennai, the capital and largest city of Tamil Nadu, India.
A city, the county seat of Jefferson County, Oregon, United States.
(Britain) A style of curry dish purported to originate from the Madras region.
A brightly colored cotton fabric with a checked or striped pattern.
A large handkerchief of this fabric, worn on the head in the West Indies.
Alternative form of Madras (“type of curry”) [Former name of Chennai, the capital and largest city of Tamil Nadu, India.]

Examples of "madras" in Sentences

In fact, as I write this very article, I am nibbling a bowl of Chex Mix... or is it a bowl of madras?
The boys never attended a "madras" (sic) or Islamic school as Emir claims, because the Islamic Center at 1425 E.
Now you're ready to saunter into a trendy restaurant in an open-collar shirt, madras blazer and knee-length pants.
He is a man of about 75, nursing a martini and looking enormously pleased to be wearing a madras jacket with a striped tie.
There we were, the next morning, Mrs. O. still wearing white linen pants, me with my madras jacket not yet in mothballs, facing the last and worst thing of all about summer—it's over.
The audience howled when the American husband came out on stage wearing madras Bermudas and sat down with his family to eat dinner in the kitchen while the maids ate in the dining room.
Patchwork madras is basically a variety of madras cut up into strips then sewn back together to form a patchwork of these different combinations, which somehow turn out to be a very attractive mix of colors and patterns.
Nazism was not identical with atheism (religion lessons in the schools were still mandatory up to 1945!), and Stalin (brought up in a Christian orthodox "madras") did not commit his atrocities under the banner of atheism: