CORDUROY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does corduroy mean? 

• CORDUROY (noun)
  The noun CORDUROY has 2 senses:

1. a cut pile fabric with vertical ribs; usually made of cotton

2. a road made of logs laid crosswise

  Familiarity information: CORDUROY used as a noun is rare.

• CORDUROY (verb)
  The verb CORDUROY has 1 sense:

1. build (a road) from logs laid side by side

  Familiarity information: CORDUROY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORDUROY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cut pile fabric with vertical ribs; usually made of cotton

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cord; corduroy

Hypernyms ("corduroy" is a kind of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "corduroy"):

Bedford cord (a heavy corded fabric similar to corduroy; used for clothing)

narrow wale (corduroy with narrow ribs)

wide wale (corduroy with wide ribs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A road made of logs laid crosswise

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("corduroy" is a kind of...):

road; route (an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation)

Derivation:

corduroy (build (a road) from logs laid side by side)

• CORDUROY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Build (a road) from logs laid side by side

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "corduroy" is one way to...):

build; construct; make (make by combining materials and parts)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

corduroy (a road made of logs laid crosswise)

 Context examples 

There is a strange unwholesome smell upon the room, like mildewed corduroys, sweet apples wanting air, and rotten books.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Behold me, on the morrow, in a much-worn little white hat, with a black crape round it for my mother, a black jacket, and a pair of hard, stiff corduroy trousers—which Miss Murdstone considered the best armour for the legs in that fight with the world which was now to come off.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)