The story
- Spanish · borrowed fromrayadillo“striped cotton cloth”
- English todayrayadillo
Borrowed from Spanish rayadillo (“striped cotton cloth”, literally “finely striped”), from rayar + -ado + -illo.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
rayadillo
Today it means: A blue-and-white striped cotton or flannel material used to make the military uniforms worn by Spanish colonial soldiers from the mid 19th century until the early 20th Century. Full definition →
Spanish rayadillo