(n.) A sort of cotton velveteen, having the surface raised in ridges.
(n.) Trousers or breeches of corduroy.
(v. t.) To form of logs laid side by side.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cheerful and eager to be helpful, he arrives to collect me the following morning, dressed in sagging brown corduroy jacket, faded blue T-shirt, blue silk cravat and socks beneath his Velcro-strapped sandals.
(2) The endothelium surface comprised thick, deep, intertwined "cable-like" or "corduroy-like" ridges.
(3) As he sits in the bay window of his elegant rooms looking out over Trinity's Great Court, dressed in baggy corduroys and a well worn tweed jacket, he looks the part of a man who is completely captivated by the seductive mix of social comfort, institutional prestige and intellectual challenge which academia at its best can provide.
(4) Planet Corduroy, his first stand-up DVD, is out now.
(5) Snugly suited in olive corduroy, speaking in London before the release of his new film, The Grand Budapest Hotel , Anderson nods at the thought.
(6) When people first saw what I was wearing - a shirt, jeans, corduroy jacket and man bag stuffed with my work - they said it was just right for the paper.
(7) The supporters of this so-called boycott are really a bunch of, you know, corduroy-jacketed academics.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Boris Johnson prays at the Western Wall on Wednesday During his three-day trade mission, Johnson repeatedly criticised calls for a boycott of Israeli goods, describing the campaign as “completely crazy” and promoted by a “few lefty academics” in corduroy jackets pursuing a cause.
(9) • 21 Trenant Close (01208 862003, surfsupsurfschool.com ); taster session £16 for just over an hour, beginner group lesson £26 for two hours, with free use of boards and wetsuits Llangennith, Gower Peninsula, Glamorgan This bay regularly offers "4ft corduroy perfection", making it popular with locals and novices alike.
(10) He crosses and uncrosses his legs, clad in his trademark clay-coloured corduroy, strokes his clean-shaven chin and runs his hands through his mousey bob.
(11) This charge is even more hilarious attached to Murphy than it is to Jeremy Corbyn – corduroy-ey even when he’s not in corduroy, he looks far more like the accountant he started out as than the renegade tax-hunter he became.
(12) This time, his remarkable protagonist – an exceptional athlete and renowned hardman, who nonetheless sports an epic survivalist beard and hipster corduroy jacket and displays the kind of insecurities you might more readily associate with a teenage boy – wasn’t only on the page.
(13) I had moved beyond orange corduroy couches to ones of beige silk moiré.
(14) The atrial atheromatous process was distributed in elongated nodules, which had a ridged or corduroy-like appearance on gross examination.
(15) My favourite ever anti-homophobia placard is the one reading “Corduroy skirts are a sin” held adjacent to a sartorially misguided evangelist with a placard of her own.
(16) Diana Freeman-Mitford, known as Nardy, Corduroy and Honks, had what passed for a normal childhood in that household, Asthall Manor in Oxfordshire (an appendectomy on a spare-bedroom table, side-saddle hunts with the Heythrop hounds) before first revealing her looks and revelling in their power on visits to Paris, although she was gated for months after the discovery of a diary entry about going to a cinema with a boy .
(17) I would strongly argue that the best movie moment for men's fashion this century is the totally awesome corduroy suit worn by the eponymous hero in Fantastic Mr Fox.
(18) He's like a teacher; he reads dry books, smokes a pipe and wears corduroy.
(19) At that period, I regularly sported a black corduroy suit and was astonished to turn up at a pre-show press conference to find that Briers had adopted exactly the same costume for the role.
(20) As Palestinians and supporters of BDS, we cannot in good conscience host Johnson, as a person who denounces the international BDS movement and prioritises the feelings of wearers of ‘corduroy jackets’ over an entire nation under occupation.
Velvet
Definition:
(n.) A silk fabric, having a short, close nap of erect threads. Inferior qualities are made with a silk pile on a cotton or linen back.
(n.) The soft and highly vascular deciduous skin which envelops and nourishes the antlers of deer during their rapid growth.
(a.) Made of velvet; soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.
(v. i.) To pain velvet.
(v. t.) To make like, or cover with, velvet.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is a struggle for the survival of our nation.” As ever, after Trump’s media dressing-down, his operation was quick to fit a velvet glove to an iron fist.
(2) The superficial bacterial flora were sampled by velvet pad imprints, and the deep flora were determined from whole skin biopsies.
(3) The morphology of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), choriocapillaris and Bruch's membrane (complexus basalis) have been studied by light and electron microscopy in the velvet cichlid (Astronotus ocellatus).
(4) Matthew d’Ancona : She’s a risk-taker, and a potentially transformative leader Theresa May may be a compassionate Conservative, but her arrival in Downing Street has been anything but a velvet revolution.
(5) Other designs included short ruffle cocktail dresses with velvet parkas slung over the shoulder; blazers made of stringed pearly pink; and gold beading and a lace catsuit.
(6) A tunic of crimson and dark blue velvet survived for centuries, hanging over the tomb of the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral.
(7) On Tuesday, Obama was sworn in with his palm on the same velvet-covered Bible used by Lincoln in 1861, but he had no bible with him at the re-run.
(8) The Velvet Underground’s sinisterly thrilling, entirely unapologetic musical portraits of New York’s gay, drug-taking demimonde must have seemed overwhelming to a British suburban kid in the late 60s.
(9) Part was the Velvet Underground and the Beats and all that stuff.
(10) Anyone who doesn't take pleasure in seeing Joe Pesci in a burgundy velvet three-piece suit is a person who possesses neither soul nor eyes.
(11) Some of the discos – or “pipers” as they were locally known, in homage to Rome’s legendary Piper nightspot – were visibly influenced by Andy Warhol’s multimedia experiments at the Dom nightclub in Manhattan, home to the Exploding Plastic Inevitable events, where the Velvet Underground would play amid lightshows, dancers and projections of Warhol’s films.
(12) I was a Bowie fan, which meant that I had bought or borrowed Transformer when I was 13, and then someone handed me an acetate of Live at Max's Kansas City and then I was a Lou Reed fan and a Velvet Underground fan.
(13) I will put prices up if I suddenly want a velvet cloak or a bejewelled cock ring.
(14) A new semidominant mutation in the house mouse, velvet coat (Ve), is described.
(15) The range includes products such as lip gloss (in claret red, precious gold and velvet mauve), bath crystals and body lotions.
(16) Storage of the velvet pad in 0.9 per cent saline for 2 h at room temperature did not influence bacterial recovery significantly, in contrast to a significant decrease after storage in saline for 24 h or storage in a dry Petri dish for 2 h. The high and fairly constant efficiency of bacterial recovery of the velvet pad rinse technique suggests that it could be employed clinically.
(17) One of its surfaces is velvet-like and induces adhesions with the edge of the abdominal defect that will be responsible for the strength of the repair.
(18) At a lavish reception at the Museum der Bildenden Kunste, Rauch lurked in the shadows ("an artist's workshop should always be installed on the fringe"), while Lybke clambered onto the seat of a velvet chair and did a comic turn.
(19) Tehran has repeatedly attacked PTV as an arm of the British government, which it accuses of seeking to foment a "velvet revolution".
(20) We propose that the initiation of late gene expression is regulated by velvet and controlled by a red light photoreceptor, whose properties are reminiscent of phytochrome-mediated responses observed in higher plants.