Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

madras

madras , noun

[So named after Madras, a city and presidency of India.]

1.
A large silk-and-cotton kerchief, usually of bright colors, such as those often used by negroes for turbans.
A black woman in blue cotton gown, red-and-yellow madras turban... crouched against the wall. — G. W. Cable
2.
A light patterned cotton fabric.