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noun
A thin, all-cotton fabric, commonly striped, used to make clothing for summer wear.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: business, manufacturing, textiles
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: hickory stripe, railroad stripe
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An article made from such fabric.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a light puckered fabric (usually striped)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fabric, cloth, material, textile
History
From Hindi शीरशक्कर (śīrśakkar), from Persian شیر و شکر (šir o šekar, literally “milk and sugar”), modified by folk etymology, originally alluding to the smooth (“milk”) and rough (“sugar”) surface of the stripes.
Across languages
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