Aertex
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Trademark, perhaps from air and texture or similar.
Proper noun
[edit]Aertex
- A lightweight and loosely woven cotton fabric used to make shirts and underwear.
- 1940, John Betjeman, Group Life: Letchworth:
- Wouldn't it be jolly now, / To take our Aertex panters off / And have a jolly tumble in / The jolly, jolly sun?
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 5, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
- Badger was leaner and seedier, and his Aertex shirt was sweatier and pulled askew by being used to mop his face.