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seersucker - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

seersucker (countable and uncountable, plural seersuckers)

  • (textiles) A thin, all- cotton fabric, commonly striped, used to make clothing for summer wear.
    • ✤ Synonyms: hickory stripe, railroad stripe
    • ✤ I saw merely a lank, commonplace, and simple-looking farmer, going about his chores in faded blue overalls, a seersucker shirt, and a straw hat of the kind that is called a “cow’s breakfast.”1
  • (countable) An article made from such fabric.

Etymology

From Hindi शीरशक्कर (śīrśakkar), from Persian شیر و شکر (šir o šekar, literally “milk and sugar”), modified by folk etymology, originally alluding to the smooth (“milk”) and rough (“sugar”) surface of the stripes.23

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA: /ˈsɪɹˌsʌk.ɚ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsɪəˌsʌk.ə/

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Footnotes

  1. 1919, Harvey J. O’Higgins, “Benjamin McNeil Murdock”, in From the Life: ↩

  2. “seersucker”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN. ↩

  3. Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “seersucker”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. ↩

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