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Corduroy is a thick, strong cotton cloth with thin raised lines running down it. Those little ridges make the cloth look striped if you look closely, and they make it feel warm and a bit rough in a pleasant way. People make trousers, jackets, and sometimes skirts from it. It is everyday clothing, not fancy dress, though fashion keeps bringing it back. The origin of the name is not settled, and that is worth saying . It probably comes from cord plus duroy, an old coarse cloth made in England. A neat story you will still hear is that it comes from French words meaning the king's cord. Though actually, that phrase is not found in French, and French just calls this cloth côtelé. Another guess ties it to an old fabric name cordesoy, from words meaning silk cord. So the cloth-of-the-king tale is one of those tidy answers that is tidier than the truth.
組成Origin uncertain. Probably cord + duroy (a coarse English cloth of the 1600s). Probably not from French for the king's cord, which is not actually found in French. Possibly from cordesoy, from corde de soie (silk cord).
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corduroynoun/ˈkɔːdəɹɔɪ/
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A heavy fabric, usually made of cotton, with vertical ribs.
- Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.
- We turned to see a muscular young man lounging in the door which led into the sitting-room. He wore green corduroy trousers, a duffle coat and an old school tie.
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obsoleteslangCheap and poor-quality whiskey.
- Another description of what would be termed adulterated spirits, is by the vulgar termed "Corduroy," on account of the rough feeling which it imparts to the tongue and palate.
- To men of common gumption, / Hot strange, besides, must seem / At this time any scheme / To put a check upon potheen's consumption, / When all are calling for Irish Poor Laws! / Instead of framing more laws, / To pauperism if you'd give a pegger, / Don't check, but patronise their "Kill-the-Beggar!" / If Pat is apt to go in Irish Linen, / (Buttoning his coat, with nothing but his skin in) / Would any Christian man -- that's quite himself, / His wits not floor'd, or laid upon the shelf --, While blaming Pat for raggedness, poor boy, / Would deprive him of his "Corduroy!"
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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.
corduroyadj/ˈkɔːdəɹɔɪ/
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Of a road, path, etc., paved with split or round logs laid crosswise side by side.
- Swamps had to be crossed by means of corduroy causeways; made by cutting down trees and laying them horizontally on the quivering mass of boggy ground.
corduroyverb/ˈkɔːdəɹɔɪ/
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To make (a road) by laying down split logs or tree-trunks over a marsh, swamp etc.
- The night was very dark and it rained heavily, the roads were so bad that the troops had to cut trees and corduroy the road a part of the way, to get through.
- But Sherman organized “pioneer battalions” of soldiers and freedmen […] to cut saplings and trees to corduroy the roads, build bridges, and construct causeways.
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