cottonade
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of cottonade
From the French word cotonnade, dating back to 1795–1805. See cotton, -ade 1
Example Sentences
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A red and yellow Madras kerchief was bound about her head in a high coil, and another over the bosom of her stiffly starched and smoothly ironed blue cottonade dress.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Runkle, Lucia Isabella Gilbert
There was one handsome Kentuckian, whose name I soon found to be Talbot, who looked charmingly picturesque in his coarse cottonade pants, white shirt, straw hat, black hair, beard, and eyes, with rosy cheeks.
From A Confederate Girl's Diary by Dawson, Sarah Morgan
The whole tiny army of long, blue, ankle-hiding cottonade pantalettes and pantaloons tried to fulfil the injunction.
From Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana by Cable, George Washington
As he entered, the clerks saw a tall boy wearing a blouse shirt and cottonade trousers, and having on his head a broad-brimmed straw hat well set back.
From The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys by Zollinger, Gulielma
He, too, was clad in cottonade and linen—though that was not the reason for my declining his offer.
From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Reid, Mayne
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