corduroys

[kawr-duh-roi, kawr-duh-roi]

cor·du·roy

[kawr-duh-roi, kawr-duh-roi]
noun
1.
a cotton-filling pile fabric with lengthwise cords or ridges.
2.
corduroys, trousers made of this fabric.
adjective
3.
of, pertaining to, or resembling corduroy.
4.
constructed of logs laid together transversely, as a road across swampy ground.

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Corduroys is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
verb (used with object)
5.
to form (a road or the like) by laying logs transversely.
6.
to make a corduroy road across or along.

Origin:
1780–90; perhaps cord (compare cords) + duroy, deroy (now obsolete) a woolen fabric originating in W England; later taken as French cord du roy the king's cords, though the fabric had no connection with France
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corduroys (ˌkɔːdəˈrɔɪz, ˈkɔːdəˌrɔɪz)
 
pl n
trousers or breeches of corduroy

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