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English

Etymology

From Madras.

Noun

madras

a brightly colored cotton fabric with a checked or striped pattern.

Quotations

brightly coloured material :2004: 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 — The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.38

Translations

French: madras

Spanish: madrás

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Danish

Noun

madras

mattress

da:madras fr:madras io:madras ru:madras te:madras vi:madras zh:madras

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English madras \ma*dras"\, n. [So named after Madras, a city and
presidency of India.]
1. A large silk-and-cotton kerchief, usually of bright
colors, such as those often used by negroes for turbans.

A black woman in blue cotton gown, red-and-yellow
madras turban . . . crouched against the wall. --G.
W. Cable.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

2. A light patterned cotton fabric.
[WordNet 1.5]

WordNet madras
n 1: a state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of
Andhra Pradesh); formerly Madras [syn: Tamil Nadu]
2: a city in Tamil Nadu on the Bay of Bengal; formerly Madras
[syn: Chennai]
3: a light patterned cotton cloth

Madras, OR (city, FIPS 45250) Location: 44.62987 N, 121.12901 W Population (1990): 3443 (1374 housing units) Area: 5.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 97741

Moby Dictionary 5078
Housing Units (2000): 1952
Land area (2000): 2.182280 sq. miles (5.652079 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.182280 sq. miles (5.652079 sq. km)
FIPS code: 45250
Located within: Oregon (OR) , FIPS 41
Location: 44.630536 N , 121.129128 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 97741
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Madras , OR
Madras