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

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

From The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Chopin, Kate

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

Instead of purchasing a suit, the man wondered where his next month’s rent was coming from, bought a pair of cottonade pants and hurried home.

From Sam Lambert and the New Way Store A Book for Clothiers and Their Clerks by Unknown

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

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