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

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hodden

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

How then was I to wear the hodden gray?

From St. Cuthbert's by Knowles, Robert E.

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)

Vashti had discarded her cloak of furs, and faced him now in such garb as is worn by the poorest in the Islands: a short gown of hodden gray, coarse-knitted stockings, and stout shoes.

From Major Vigoureux by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

The burial service was read over him and then Prince Henry, clothed in a cloak of hodden gray, and carrying a beggar's wallet, was thrust from the door of the church into perpetual banishment.

From The Children's Longfellow Told in Prose by Hayman, Doris