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Usage examples of corduroy.

The man was dressed in an ancient bell-bottom suit of tan corduroy and wore a threadbare Borsalino hat.

Lisa Bowditch opened her purse and pulled out a fat Montblanc pen and a checkbook with a mauve corduroy cover.

The frowner was a trim, fit man in a black turtleneck sweater and corduroy trousers, rather chinless but with a high forehead and a large, dignified German nose.

Porteous wondered sometimes if the path were not a mere game track, but he was reassured when his plunging feet struck bits of corduroy in the hollows, rotten poles drooping between the moldered brown lengths of the stringpieces, -all hidden in the undergrowth.

In his corduroy jacket and bowtie he felt mercifully remote from the dark-suited businessmen ranged opposite him, most of them doggedly studying the City news.

I was a living experiment dressed in white corduroys and a Fair Isle sweater.

She needed a Christmas card for Alec, and all he wanted as a present was a new pair of corduroys, if she could afford them.

She dressed for work, in worn corduroys and a long-sleeved shirt to protect herself against brambles and poison ivy, toxic even in semidormancyand, of course, the thorns on the roses.

Dark gray corduroys molded a lean pair of hips and long, powerful legs.

He wore the uniform of academia: corduroy jacket fastened high to the neck, with worn and faded elbow patches, stone-washed denims, black Doc Martens and tortoiseshell round-rim glasses.

This woman of the baggy corduroy lacks and baggier sweater, who hid her femininity like a guilty secret.

Thesiger was frequently to be found in corduroy trousers or a rough woollen pullover or with a tatty old cravat tucked around his neckthe blue battledress with its insignia of rank the only concession he made.

Enderby eyed her bitterly, trying to look like disguised Rosalind in some ridiculous black trendy production of As You Like It, that was to say in peaked corduroy cap and patched boilersuit, but breathing very quintessence of elegance and glamour.

The lane was quite populous with waggons and hay-makers--the men in their corduroys and blue hose--the women in their trim jackets and bright calamanco petticoats.

Tuesday morning, clad in a sweater-jacket, tennis-shoes, an old felt hat, a khaki shirt and corduroys, carrying a suit-case packed to bursting with clothes and Baedekers, with one hundred and fifty dollars in express-company drafts craftily concealed, he dashed down to Baraieff's hole.