Seersucker (noun)
seer-suk-er
Traditionally a striped cotton with alternate stripes crinkled in the weaving.
Seersucker was first recorded in English around 1715-25, after the fabric had begun to be imported to Europe from India. Seersucker comes from the Hindi word sīrsakar, from the Persian phrase shīr o shakar, which literally means “milk and sugar.”
Example sentences
“the faded seersucker cushion sat on the rocking chair”
Medley (noun) med-lee a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble. First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English noun and adjective medle(e), medlei(e), maedlai(e) “battle, war, quarrel; mixture, balanced mixture,” from…
