madras

See also: Madras and madrás

English

Etymology

From Madras.

Noun

madras (countable and uncountable, plural madrases)

1. A brightly colored cotton fabric with a checked or striped pattern.
   • G. W. Cable

     A black woman in blue cotton gown, red-and-yellow madras turban […] crouched against the wall.

   • 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

2. A large handkerchief of this fabric, worn on the head in the West Indies.

Translations

fabric

• French: madras (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: madrás m

Anagrams

• Mardas, damars, 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

Declension

Declension of madras

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

References

• “madras” in Den Danske Ordbog

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French

Etymology

From Madras.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.dʁas/ ~ /ma.dʁɑs/

Noun

madras m (plural madras)

1. (textiles) madras

Further reading

• “madras”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Màdras.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mǎdras/
• Hyphenation: mad‧ras

Noun

màdras m (Cyrillic spelling ма̀драс)

1. (textiles) madras

Declension

Declension of madras

	singular	plural
nominative	madras	madrasi
genitive	madrasa	madrasa
dative	madrasu	madrasima
accusative	madras	madrase
vocative	madrase	madrasi
locative	madrasu	madrasima
instrumental	madrasom	madrasima

References

• “madras” in Hrvatski jezični portal