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corduroylike

corduroylike adjective: resembling or characteristic of corduroy.

Adjective

corduroylike (comparative more corduroylike, superlative most corduroylike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of corduroy.
    • One of the oldest works, a rather primitive tomb door from the Eastern Han (25 to 220), shows a dragon chasing a bird above a wonderfully crude crowned mask; their smooth silhouettes are defined by a roughly chiseled corduroylike background whose parallel lines also bring to mind Jasper Johns’s...2008 June 7, Roberta Smith, “Chinese Buddhist Treasures, Written in Stone”, in New York Times

Forms of corduroylike

comparativemore corduroylike
superlativemost corduroylike

Origin of corduroylike

From corduroy + -like.

Questions about corduroylike

What does corduroylike mean?
Corduroylike means resembling or characteristic of corduroy.
What part of speech is corduroylike?
Corduroylike is an adjective.

Words near corduroylike in the dictionary

  1. corduroy
  2. corduroy road
  3. corduroy roads
  4. corduroyed
  5. corduroying
  6. corduroylike
  7. corduroys
  8. cordwain
  9. cordwainer
  10. cordwainers
  11. cordwainery

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