Aertex
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Trademark, perhaps from air and texture or similar.
Proper noun[edit]
Aertex
- A lightweight and loosely woven cotton fabric used to make shirts and underwear.
- 1940, John Betjeman, Group Life: Letchworth:
- Wouldn't it be jolly now, / To take our Aertex panters off / And have a jolly tumble in / The jolly, jolly sun?
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 5, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
- Badger was leaner and seedier, and his Aertex shirt was sweatier and pulled askew by being used to mop his face.