fat quarter
English
editEtymology
editThe piece is made by folding a metre-square piece of fabric into quarters and cutting along the folds; it is fat in comparison with a quarter of a metre off the roll, which would be a long thin piece only 25 centimetres wide.
Noun
editfat quarter (plural fat quarters)
- (textiles) A square piece of fabric measuring 50 centimetres along each side.