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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 143 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CORDUROY , a See also:

cotton See also:cloth of the See also:fustian See also:kind, made like a ribbed See also:velvet. It is generally a coarse heavy material and is used largely for workmen's clothes, but some finer kinds are used for ladies' dresses, &c. According to the New See also:English See also:Dictionary the word is understood to be of English invention, " either originally intended, or soon after assumed, to represent a supposed See also:French corde du rot." It is said that a coarse woollen fabric called duroy, made in See also:Somerset during the 18th See also:century, has no apparent connexion with it. From the ribbed See also:appearance of the cloth the name corduroy is applied, particularly in Amercia, to a rough road of logs laid transversely See also:side by side, usually across swampy ground.

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