madras

See also Madras, and madrás

English

Etymology

From Madras.

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

Translations

fabric

• French: madras (fr) m

• Spanish: madrás m

Anagrams

• dramas
• masdar

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Danish

Etymology

From Dutch matras or German Matratze (from Middle High German, from Old Italian materazzo).

Noun

madras c (singular definite madrassen, plural indefinite madrasser)

1. mattress

Inflection

    Inflection of madras

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	madras	madrassen	madrasser	madrasserne
genitive	madras'	madrassens	madrassers	madrassernes

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French

Etymology

From Madras.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /madʁɑs/, /madʁas/

Noun

madras m (plural madras)

1. (textiles) madras