: to build (a road) of logs laid side by side transversely
also: to build a corduroy road across
Example Sentences
Noun a jacket made of corduroy
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
The woman wears a floral dress, and the man has a rumpled mustache and a corduroy jacket.WIRED, 2 Sep. 2022 For those colder fall days, opt for the Floerns' High-Waisted Pants, which are made of a thick corduroy. Nicol Natale, Peoplemag, 29 Aug. 2022 The staunch vegan opted for a leather-free interior: The dashboard, steering wheel and center console were painstakingly crafted from cork, while the roof lining, seat centers and sun visors have been upholstered in beige corduroy. Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 3 June 2022 The booths are upholstered in a more-modern corduroy. Elise Taylor, Vogue, 4 Feb. 2022 The exterior is made of a versatile corduroy, bringing both texture and style to the simple bag. Annie Burdick, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2022 The chair was a phenomenologist named Marvin Philips, a plump man of collared shirts and timeworn corduroy who, it was rumored, had run aground in philosophy and now spent his days writing haiku. Joshua Ferris, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022 Today, luxury clothes like Bottega Veneta’s alligator-green, corduroy-esque trousers or Gucci’s geometric-motif, double-breasted suit throb with a hollering hype normally reserved for the sneaker section. Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2022 My mom’s black corduroy jacket from the ’80s is cool.Bon Appétit, 22 Apr. 2022
Verb
The trick is finding the right color: lean in to corduroy's '70s feeling with rich cognac, or play the part of the refined Italian guy with a dusty green. Megan Gustashaw, GQ, 9 Jan. 2018 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun
of obscure origin
Note: In the 18th century a name for a kind of coarse, thick-ribbed cotton fabric. It has been hypothesized that the word is a compound of cord as the name for a fabric and duroy, a coarse woolen fabric, but cord in this sense does not appear to be earlier than corduroy. Advertisements in the 1774 numbers of the Boston Gazette and Country Journal have cord, corduroy, duroy, as well as cordesoy and cordusoy (perhaps by association with padusoy, variant of paduasoy) in lists of fabrics for sale. The notion that corduroy is from French corde du roi, "king's cord," is fanciful.