seersucker.

A lightweight fabric, often striped, with characteristic slightly puckered bands or wrinkles.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• a seersucker suit
• striped seersucker
• seersucker fabric

On the page

The blue stripes of his seersucker suit rose slightly above the white ones.

She smoothed the seersucker, but its small puckers remained.

Usage notes

Primary category: sensory / image-rich description. Lexical Type: Word. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Commonness: moderately common (editorial estimate; not a corpus frequency statistic). Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1; numbered fields keep each relevant meaning separate. Research distinction: Positive complete dictionary sense: light linen/cotton/rayon fabric usually striped and slightly puckered. Texture part of fabric construction, not merely accidental wrinkling. Individually checked for a distinct image, texture, sound, taste, smell, visual-perception or artistic function. Definitions/examples are original; sensory strength is not assumed to imply emotion. Writing functions: constructed cloth puckering, summer clothing detail.