corduroy
灯芯绒,灯心绒,灯芯草,灯心草
Definitions
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- : a cotton-filling pile fabric with lengthwise cords or ridges.
- : corduroys, trousers made of this fabric.
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- : of, relating to, or resembling corduroy.
- : constructed of logs laid together transversely, as a road across swampy ground.
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- : to form by laying logs transversely.
- : to make a corduroy road across or along.
Examples
As the weather grew cooler, my son discovered a corduroy jacket that had once belonged to my father.
His slate corduroy trousers were slightly short in the leg—he is a tall, slim man.
These butterflies require a 12-foot swath of fresh corduroy for their fluttering.
Once you learn to trust the high edge angles, you’ll leave deep tracks in fresh corduroy.
Your skis should be there to support you, not turn into a chattery mess the minute you venture off the corduroy.
But my all-time most memorable item of clothes was a pair of green corduroy trousers I wore for nine months of art school.
An elderly man in a yellow corduroy jacket stood patiently by, waiting to speak.
This kid came in who was wearing corduroy pants, even though it was hot.
He wears the same corduroy pants that Uncle Ben gave him on his twenty-first birthday.
When only a few planks are used the term "corduroy the bank" is used (see Fig. 37).
The blazed trail gave way to the corduroy road, and the pack horse to the oxcart or the stage.
Taking his knife, the boy slit the leg of the corduroy trousers, and then carefully rolled the woolen sock down.