Madras

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English

Etymology

From Madras.

Noun

madras

  1. a brightly colored cotton fabric with a checked or striped pattern.

Quotations

brightly coloured material

2004: The service makes available, during limited weekend hours, a handful of the company’s items – cargo shorts, tank tops, and the like – to the Hamptons house guest who discovers that he can’t make it to Monday without purchasing one of those weird madras patchwork blazers — The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.38

Translations

  • French: madras m.

Danish

Noun

madras

  1. mattress

fr:madras io:madras

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