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CORDUROY

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 143 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: COM-COR
CORDUROY , a
cotton
 
cloth
  of the fustian
kind
 , made like a ribbed velvet. It is generally a coarse heavy material and is used largely for workmen's clothes, but some finer kinds are used for ladies' dresses, &c. According to the New
English
  Dictionary the word is understood to be of
English
  invention, " either originally intended, or soon after assumed, to represent a supposed
French
  corde du rot." It is said that a coarse woollen fabric called duroy, made in Somerset during the 18th
century
 , has no apparent connexion with it. From the ribbed
appearance
  of the
cloth
  the name corduroy is applied, particularly in Amercia, to a rough road of logs laid transversely side by side, usually across swampy ground.


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