noun. A durable cut-pile fabric, usually made of cotton, with vertical ribs.

noun. Pants made of corduroy.

noun. A road made of logs laid down crosswise.

adjective. Made of a fabric with vertical ribs.

adjective. Made of logs laid down crosswise.

transitive verb. To build (a road) of logs laid down crosswise.

In splitting a hide, to make uneven lines or spots on the flesh side of it.

To make or construct by means of small logs laid transversely, as a road.

noun. A thick cotton stuff corded or ribbed on the surface.

noun. A corduroy road. See II., 1.

Like corduroy; ribbed like corduroy: as, a corduroy road.

Made of corduroy.

transitive verb. To form of logs laid side by side.

noun. A sort of cotton velveteen, having the surface raised in ridges.

noun. Trousers or breeches of corduroy.

noun. a roadway formed of logs laid side by side across it, as in marshy places; -- so called from its rough or ribbed surface, resembling corduroy.

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

verb. To make (a road) by laying down split logs or tree-trunks over a marsh, swamp etc.

noun. a road made of logs laid crosswise

verb. build (a road) from logs laid side by side

noun. a cut pile fabric with vertical ribs; usually made of cotton

"Corduroy's origins date back to the late 1700s England, not France as is widely believed, says James Pruden, a spokesman for Cotton Inc., a research and promotion nonprofit headquartered in Cary, N.C. The term corduroy is most likely a combination of the words "cord" and the now obsolete "duroy" or "deroy," meaning a woolen garment, he says."

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