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Definition of Corduroys
1. Noun. Cotton trousers made of corduroy cloth.
Definition of Corduroys
1. Noun. Trousers (''British'')/pants (''US'') made from corduroy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Corduroys
1. corduroy [v] - See also: corduroy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corduroys
Literary usage of Corduroys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report on the Statistics of Manufactures by Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics (1899)
"In a little time it is hoped the corduroys, jeans, etc., made in this town ...
In May, 1790, S. Brazier of Worcester advertised for sale "jeans, corduroys, ..."
2. The Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain Systematically Investigated by Andrew Ure (1836)
"... Velveteens, corduroys, etc. Fig. Ill is a longitudinal section, and fig.
112 a cross section of the usual apparatus, as worked by hand. Figs. ..."
3. A History of the United States in Chronological Order from the Discovery of by Emery E. Childs (1885)
"It manufactured corduroys and bed-ticks. 1788 The new Federal Constitution proposed
the last year to the people of the United States by the several ..."
4. Noetes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, James Hogg, William Maginn, John Gibson Lockhart (1854)
"now begin to suspect them of being; and I, for one, knew them just as well when
you were in your first corduroys, man, as you are likely to do by the time ..."
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