corduroy
Meanings
Plural: corduroys
Noun
- a cut pile fabric with vertical ribs; usually made of cotton
- a road made of logs laid crosswise
- A heavy fabric, usually made of cotton, with vertical ribs.
- 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
- build (a road) from logs laid side by side
- To make (a road) by laying down split logs or tree-trunks over a marsh, swamp etc.
Adj
- Of a road, path, etc., paved with split or round logs laid crosswise side by side.
Origin / Etymology
Origin uncertain. Probably from cord + duroy (“a 17th century coarse fabric made in England”). Probably not from French *corde du roi (“cloth of the king”), which is unattested in French, where the term for the corduroy is velours côtelé. Possibly from cordesoy (“corde de soie”), or "rope of silk or silk-like fabric" in French), named for example in a 1756 advertisement for clothing fabrics; see Wikipedia article, and comparable in language form to the contemporary serg(e)dusoys (“silk serge”), see Serge (fabric).
Synonyms
cord, kill-the-beggar
Scrabble Score: 14
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