Meanings
proper noun
- A lightweight and loosely woven cotton fabric used to make shirts and underwear.
Wouldn't it be jolly now, / To take our Aertex panters off / And have a jolly tumble in / The jolly, jolly sun?
1940, John Betjeman, Group Life: Letchworth1 more example
Badger was leaner and seedier, and his Aertex shirt was sweatier and pulled askew by being used to mop his face.
2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 5, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN
Origin
Trademark, perhaps from air and texture or similar.
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APA
Aertex. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Aertex
MLA
“Aertex.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Aertex. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Aertex,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Aertex.
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