madras

From Madras.

madras (countable and uncountable, plural madrases)

1. A brightly colored cotton fabric with a checked or striped pattern.
   • G. W. Cable

     A black woman in blue cotton gown, red-and-yellow madras turban […] crouched against the wall.

   • 2004, The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.38

     The service makes available, during limited weekend hours, a handful of the company’s items – cargo shorts, tank tops, and the like – to the Hamptons house guest who discovers that he can’t make it to Monday without purchasing one of those weird madras patchwork blazers

2. A large handkerchief of this fabric, worn on the head in the West Indies.

• Mardas, damars, dramas, masdar

From Dutch matras or German Matratze (from Middle High German, from Old Italian materazzo).

madras c (singular definite madrassen, plural indefinite madrasser)

1. mattress

• “madras” in Den Danske Ordbog

From English madras.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑdrɑs/, [ˈmɑdrɑs̠]
• Rhymes: -ɑdrɑs
• Syllabification^(key): mad‧ras

madras

1. madras (type of cotton fabric)

• madraspuuvilla

From Madras.

• IPA^(key): /ma.dʁas/, /ma.dʁɑs/

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madras m (plural madras)

1. (textiles) madras

• “madras”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French madras.

madras n (plural madrasuri)

1. (textiles) madras

• madras in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

From Màdras.

• IPA^(key): /mǎdras/
• Hyphenation: mad‧ras

màdras m (Cyrillic spelling ма̀драс)

1. (textiles) madras

• “madras” in Hrvatski jezični portal