corduroy
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
corduroy
- A heavy fabric, usually made of cotton, with vertical ribs.
- (obsolete, Ireland, slang) 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.
- (cheap whiskey) kill-the-beggar
- French: velours côtelé
- German: Cord
- Portuguese: bombazine, veludo cotelê
- Russian: ру́бчатый вельве́т
- Spanish: pana
corduroy (corduroys, present participle corduroying; past and past participle corduroyed)
- To make (a road) by laying down split logs or tree-trunks over a marsh, swamp etc.
- 1886, Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, chapter 53
- 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.
- 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford 2004, pp. 827-8:
- But Sherman organized “pioneer battalions” of soldiers and freedmen […] to cut saplings and trees to corduroy the roads, build bridges, and construct causeways.
- 1886, Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, chapter 53
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