madras

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Translations 1.3 Anagrams 2 Danish 2.1 Noun 2.1.1 Inflection

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Madras.

[edit] Noun

madras (uncountable)

1. a brightly colored cotton fabric with a checked or striped pattern.
   • 2004, The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.38

     The service makes available, during limited weekend hours, a handful of the company’s items – cargo shorts, tank tops, and the like – to the Hamptons house guest who discovers that he can’t make it to Monday without purchasing one of those weird madras patchwork blazers

[edit] Translations

French: madras fr(fr) m.

Spanish: madrás m.

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: aadmrs
• dramas

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[edit] Danish

From Low Saxon madratz.

[edit] Noun

madras c. (singular definite madrassen, plural indefinite madrasser)

1. mattress

[edit] Inflection