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Summer suit material
Answer for the clue "Summer suit material ", 10 letters:
seersucker
Alternative clues for the word seersucker
Word definitions for seersucker in dictionaries
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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1722, from Hindi sirsakar , East Indian corruption of Persian shir o shakkar "striped cloth," literally "milk and sugar," a reference to the alternately smooth and puckered surfaces of the stripes. From Persian shir (cognate with Sanskrit ksiram "milk") ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a light puckered fabric (usually striped)
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.
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.