madras

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[edit] Etymology

From Madras.

[edit] Noun

Singular
madras

Plural
uncountable

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

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[edit] Danish

From Low Saxon madratz.

[edit] Noun

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

  1. mattress

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