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👖 A ribbed fabric 🪵 A log road 🪵 To build with logs
corduroy

corduroy

1 8.4
A road of logs laid crosswise to make wet ground passable
  • noun
  • /ˈkɔrdəˌrɔɪ/
  • Archaic
translation icon : camino de troncos (arcaico)
  • The construction team built a corduroy road to provide access through the marshy landscape after heavy rains.
  • corduroy road

Examples

  • During our hike, we encountered a corduroy road that made walking through the swamp much easier.

  • Riding the train with the rails in their present sadly decrepit state is hardly more enjoyable than driving a light buggy headlong down a corduroy road. "Then let us seek our beds," his wife said.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Waffles with pure maple syrup, pancakes, corduroy sausage, four members of the haute bourgeoisie, a fire hydrant, the ocean.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • In the past, pioneers created a corduroy road using logs placed side by side to improve travel across muddy areas.

Synonyms

skid road
vscorduroy
  • Specialized
8.6

A rough road made of logs for dragging cut trees

is built to cross wet ground by laying logs crosswise to aid passage

How Passable

paved
1 1.3
gravel
99 1.4
corduroy
  • Archaic
1 8.4
dirt
2.4

Surface Forms

corduroy singular
corduroys plural

Etymology

Corduroy for a log road comes from the cloth because the lines of logs make a ribbed look like corduroy fabric, so a 'corduroy' road is a path of logs laid over wet or muddy ground.