- (also cord)[uncountable]
a type of strong soft cotton cloth with a pattern of raised straight lines on it, used for making clothes 灯芯绒 a corduroy jacket 灯芯绒夹克
- corduroys[plural] (old-fashioned)
cords (= trousers made of corduroy) 灯芯绒裤子
Word Originlate 18th cent.: probably from cord ‘ribbed fabric’ + duroy, denoting a kind of lightweight worsted formerly made in the West of England, of unknown origin.