• Madras

    Origin

    From Madras.

    Full definition of madras

    Noun

    madras

    (uncountable)
    1. 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

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