corduroylike

comparative more corduroylike · superlative most corduroylike

1. Resembling or characteristic of corduroy.

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   One of the oldest works, a rather primitive tomb door from the Eastern Han (25 to 220), shows a dragon chasing a bird above a wonderfully crude crowned mask; their smooth silhouettes are defined by a roughly chiseled corduroylike background whose parallel lines also bring to mind Jasper Johns’s crosshatch patterns.

   2008 June 7, Roberta Smith, “Chinese Buddhist Treasures, Written in Stone”, in New York Times