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Aertex

Aertex proper noun: a lightweight and loosely woven cotton fabric used to make shirts and underwear.

Proper noun

Aertex

  1. A lightweight and loosely woven cotton fabric used to make shirts and underwear.
    • Wouldn't it be jolly now, / To take our Aertex panters off / And have a jolly tumble in / The jolly, jolly sun?1940, John Betjeman, Group Life: Letchworth
    • Badger was leaner and seedier, and his Aertex shirt was sweatier and pulled askew by being used to mop his face.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 5, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN

Origin of Aertex

Trademark, perhaps from air and texture or similar.

Questions about Aertex

What does Aertex mean?
Aertex means a lightweight and loosely woven cotton fabric used to make shirts and underwear.
What part of speech is Aertex?
Aertex is a proper noun.

Words near Aertex in the dictionary

  1. aerovanes
  2. aeroyacht
  3. aeroyachts
  4. AERs
  5. Aertel
  6. Aertex
  7. Aerts
  8. Aertses
  9. aeruginascin
  10. aerugine
  11. aeruginolysin

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