Aertex

English

Etymology

Trademark, perhaps from air and texture or similar.

Proper noun

Aertex

  1. 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 […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
      Badger was leaner and seedier, and his Aertex shirt was sweatier and pulled askew by being used to mop his face.

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