hodden
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of hodden
C18: Scottish, of obscure origin
Example Sentences
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That group, with wild beards and long unkempt hair, clad in rough garments of every shade, from "butternut" to hodden gray, come evidently from the far uplands of Virginia.
From Border and Bastille by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence
As he watched and waited there stole down from the fells above him 'oncome' of mist or 'haar' from the eastward, which soon drew a plaid of hodden grey above the shoulder of Shillmoor.
From Border Ghost Stories by Howard Pease
The game of love is the same, whether the players be clad in velvet or in hodden grey.
From St. Patrick's Eve by Charles James Lever
"Why should I wear the hodden grey When I am light of heart to-day?"
From Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough by William Morris
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
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