seersucker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++seer·suck·er /ˈsɪəˌsʌkə $ ˈsɪrˌsʌkər/ noun [uncountable] TIMa light cotton cloth with an uneven surface and a pattern of lines on it 绉面薄织物，泡泡纱
Examples from the Corpus
seersucker• He had dispensed with his winter tweeds in favour of a seersucker suit that was, if anything, even more shapeless.• He's wearing a knife-creased, sky-blue seersucker, safari-style suit.• This style requires a soft flowing material such as a lightweight cotton seersucker.• At ten to five he put it in the side pocket of his seersucker suit and left.• If you wear a plain old seersucker suit and a nice straw hat, no one will take offense.• He no longer wore glasses, but he hadn't changed his hair style or seersucker jacket.• The other girls are carrying purses and wearing seersucker and madras cotton blouses or printed cotton dresses and penny loafers.• It was a beautiful dress, white seersucker dotted with small mauve flowers.Origin seersucker (1700-1800) Hindi sirsaker, from Persian shir-o-shakar “milk and sugar”seer·suck·er nounChineseSyllable
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seersucker
seer‧suck‧er /ˈsɪəˌsʌkə $ ˈsɪrˌsʌkər/
noun [uncountable]
seer‧suck‧er /ˈsɪəˌsʌkə $ ˈsɪrˌsʌkər/
noun [uncountable] Date: 1700-1800
Language: Hindi
Origin: sirsaker, from Persian shir-o-shakar 'milk and sugar'
a light cotton cloth with an uneven surface and a pattern of lines on it
Language: Hindi
Origin: sirsaker, from Persian shir-o-shakar 'milk and sugar'