English
madras
see also: Madras
Noun

madras

  1. A brightly colored cotton fabric with a checked or striped pattern.
    • G. W. Cable
      A black woman in blue cotton gown, red-and-yellow madras turban […] crouched against the wall.
    • 2004, The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.38
      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
  2. A large handkerchief of this fabric, worn on the head in the West Indies.
Translations
  • French: madras
  • Spanish: madrás
Madras
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /məˈdɹæs/
Proper noun
  1. Former name of Chennai#English|Chennai, the caplc in Tamil Nadu, India.
  2. A city/county seat in Jefferson County, Oregon.
Synonyms Translations
  • French: Madras
  • German: Madras
  • Portuguese: Madras, Madrasta
  • Russian: Мадра́с
  • Spanish: Madras
Noun

madras

  1. (British) A style of curry dish purported to originate from the Madras region.
    I’ll have the Chicken Madras.


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