cottonade

American  

[kot-n-eyd] / ˌkɒt nˈeɪd /

noun

1. a heavy, coarse fabric made of cotton or mixed fibers and often resembling wool, used in the manufacture of work clothes.

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cottonade British  

/ ˌkɒtəˈneɪd /

noun

1. a coarse fabric of cotton or mixed fibres, used for work clothes, etc

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Etymology

Origin of cottonade

From the French word cotonnade, dating back to 1795–1805. See cotton, -ade ¹

Example Sentences

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cottonade

Some of them are proficient weavers, who have long been employed making the stuff called Attakapas cottonade, so favorably known in the market.

From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by E. N. Elliott

She donned her new blue cottonade and white apron, for she remembered that this was Sunday.

From The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

Here you've got to have a three-ply, doubled and twisted introduction before you can smile even at cottonade.

From The Jucklins A Novel by Opie Percival Read

Occasionally might be seen a jauntily-dressed clerk, with blue cottonade trowsers, white linen coat, costly Panama hat, shirt with cambric ruffles, and diamond studs.

From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Mayne Reid

He was dressed in blue cottonade and looked like some good boy's grandpa.

From "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show by Sam R. Watkins