Corduroy

Quick meaning: Corduroy is a noun meaning A heavy fabric, usually made of cotton, with vertical ribs.

Meaning

A heavy fabric, usually made of cotton, with vertical ribs.

More Meanings

1. Of a road, path, etc., paved with split or round logs laid crosswise side by side.
2. To make (a road) by laying down split logs or tree-trunks over a marsh, swamp etc.
3. A pattern on snow resulting from the use of a snow groomer to pack snow and improve skiing, snowboarding and snowmobile trail conditions. Corduroy is widely regarded as a good surface on which to ski or ride.
4. (obsolete, Ireland, slang) Cheap and poor-quality whiskey.

Example Sentences

Swamps had to be crossed by means of corduroy causeways; made by cutting down trees and laying them horizontally on the quivering mass of boggy ground.

The night was very dark and it rained heavily, the roads were so bad that the troops had to cut trees and corduroy the road a part of the way, to get through.

But Sherman organized “pioneer battalions” of soldiers and freedmen […] to cut saplings and trees to corduroy the roads, build bridges, and construct causeways.

We turned to see a muscular young man lounging in the door which led into the sitting-room. He wore green corduroy trousers, a duffle coat and an old school tie.

Word Forms

• corduroys
• corduroying
• corduroyed

Synonyms for corduroy

Depending on context, synonyms include kill-the-beggar, cord, log.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cord, log, rough, unsmooth, velvet, wale.

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