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

With these were some half-dozen Creole-Frenchmen of the poorer class of proprietaires, weavers of cottonade, or small planters.

From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Reid, Mayne

The gentlemen, almost without exception, wear pantaloons of blue cottonade, coarse and unsightly in its appearance, but which many exquisites have recently taken a fancy to adopt.

From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 by Ingraham, Joseph Holt

He was dressed in a suit of Attakapas cottonade, and his shirt unbuttoned and thrown back from the throat and bosom, sailor-wise, showed a herculean breast; hard and grizzled.

From Old Creole Days by Cable, George Washington

At home there was always a clean shirt and a pair of cottonade pantaloons waiting for him, and nothing but a "Well, Jim!" by way of reproof.

From The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys by Zollinger, Gulielma

It consisted of a half-blouse, half-hunting-shirt, of strong cottonade, with trousers of the same material.

From The Boy Hunters by Unknown