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A light puckered fabric (usually striped)
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seersucker
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ At ten to five he put it in the side pocket of his seersucker suit and left. ▪ He's wearing a knife-creased, sky-blue seersucker , safari-style suit. ▪ He had dispensed with his winter tweeds in favour of a seersucker suit that ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A thin, all-cotton fabric, commonly striped, used to make clothing for summer wear. 2 (context countable English) An article made from such fabric.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a light puckered fabric (usually striped)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seersucker \Seer"suck`er\, n. A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar appearance.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Seersucker is a thin, puckered, all- cotton fabric , commonly striped or chequered, used to make clothing for spring and summer wear. The word came into English from Persian , and originates from the words sheer and shakar , literally meaning "milk and ...
Usage examples of seersucker.
Advertising Council first prizer featured a handsome guy in a seersucker suit walking on the beach, ogling a blonde dish sunbathing.
Pink faces with a stylish Southern sag, old Ivy styles, seersucker coats and buttondown collars.
After packing some white shirts and some wash pants in a cardboard box, and putting on a new blue-and-white seersucker suit he had bought when he first came to Florida, but had never worn, Stanley wondered what to do about the storm shutters.
Someone on that night rattler crew from the north was just jawing about some little squirt in seersucker chasing that same Longarm out of the Denver depot at a dead run!
He pulled out a light blue seersucker suit, found a white shirt, then went straight for the tie rack where he picked out the perfect red-and-gold-striped bow tie.
The Englishman, an affable man, a true Old World gentleman it seemed, in a narrow seersucker suit with a gold watch chain fixed to his vest pocket.