madras
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Madras.
[edit] Noun
madras (uncountable)
- 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
- 2004, The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.38
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[edit] Danish
From Low German madratz.
[edit] Noun
madras c. (singular definite madrassen, plural indefinite madrasser)
[edit] 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 |
[edit] French
[edit] Etymology
From Madras.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /madʁɑs/, /madʁas/
[edit] Noun
madras m. (plural madras)
- (textiles) madras