madras

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. özel isim Former name of Chennai: the capital and largest city of Tamil Nadu, India.
2. özel isim A city, the county seat of Jefferson County, Oregon, United States.
3. isim A style of curry dish purported to originate from the Madras region.

   “I’ll have the chicken Madras.”

4. isim A brightly colored cotton fabric with a checked or striped pattern.

   “A black woman in blue cotton gown, red-and-yellow Madras turban […] crouched against the wall.”

5. isim A large handkerchief of this fabric, worn on the head in the West Indies.
6. isim Alternative form of Madras (“type of curry”).

   “Gerry ordered poppadoms and parathas and then he was interrupted by requests for vindaloos, chicken madrases and sag joshes, rice, raita and nan, from Priest, Morgan and Maria Grazia.”