hodden
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of hodden
C18: Scottish, of obscure origin
Example Sentences
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But for all that, romances go on, we may be sure, whether people are clad in velvet or hodden gray.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 by Various
A shawl of hodden grey covered her head and shoulders, and from beneath it she produced a small basket and held it up.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
The red sun stared unwinking at the East Then slept under a cloak of hodden gray; The rimy fields held the last light of day, A little tender yet.
From Poems New and Old by John Freeman
From the door where for an instant I halted, I took in the stained clapboard walls, carved over with crude initials; and the dingy benches full of men in jeans and hodden gray.
From The Portal of Dreams by Charles Neville Buck
She would have been the same even if attired in hodden gray, but now she was well-dressed in silks and furs.
From Christian's Mistake by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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