Associations to the word «Corduroy»

Wiktionary

CORDUROY, noun. A heavy fabric, usually made of cotton, with vertical ribs.
CORDUROY, verb. To make (a road) by laying down split logs or tree-trunks over a marsh, swamp etc.
CORDUROY ROAD, noun. A road paved with split or round logs laid crosswise side by side, used e.g. to cross swampy areas.

Dictionary definition

CORDUROY, noun. A cut pile fabric with vertical ribs; usually made of cotton.
CORDUROY, noun. A road made of logs laid crosswise.
CORDUROY, verb. Build (a road) from logs laid side by side.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope