Madras
Origin
From Madras.
Full definition of madras
Noun
madras
(uncountable)- a brightly colored cotton fabric with a checked or striped pattern.
- 2004, The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.38The 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