hodden

British  

/ ˈhɒdɪn, ˈhɒdən /

noun

1. a coarse homespun cloth produced in Scotland: hodden grey is made by mixing black and white wools

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Etymology

Origin of hodden

C18: Scottish, of obscure origin

Example Sentences

For Anton Lennox would have none of these gauds, but was in an ordinary blue bonnet and hodden grey.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

We wear no velvets, nor satins fine; We dress in a very homely way; But, ah! what luminous lustres shine About Sunbeam's gowns and my hodden gray.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various

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 Freeman, John

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 Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

They sang the same songs, told the same tales, ate the same kind of broth from the same kind of bowls, and dressed in the same coarse goods of hodden gray.

From The Little Colonel at Boarding-School by Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)