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

The dress I knew well—the blue cottonade trousers, the striped shirt, and palmetto hat.

From Project Gutenberg

Blanket-coats of red, blue, and green; linsey woolseys of coarse texture, grey or copper-coloured; red flannel shirts; jackets of brown linen, or white—some of yellow nankin cotton—a native fabric; some of sky-blue cottonade; hunting-shirts of dressed deer-skin, with moccasins and leggins; boots of horse or alligator hide, high-lows, brogans—in short, every variety of chaussure known throughout the States.

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

Mary, laughing and talking softly as they entered their room, called to John’s recollection the Italian’s account of how he had once bought a tarpaulin hat and a cottonade shirt of the pattern called a “jumper,” and had worked as a deck-hand in loading and unloading steam-boats.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg