Corduroy
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A short encyclopedia entry defining corduroy as a cotton fustian cloth made like a ribbed velvet, coarse and heavy for workmen's clothes, with finer kinds used for ladies' dresses. It discusses the word's supposed origin (the English coinage imitating a French corde du roi), notes the unrelated Somerset woollen duroy, and mentions the American use of the name for log roads.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1911
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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