hodden
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of hodden
C18: Scottish, of obscure origin
Example Sentences
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She no longer wore a skirt of beautiful green, but a long robe of hodden grey covered her from head to foot.
From Stories from the Ballads Told to the Children by Katharine Cameron
These Quakers would have the world go in hodden gray, and clumsy shoes and stockings.
From A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Amanda Minnie Douglas
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 Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston
Sometimes it seems to be but of the "hodden grey;" when sunbeam or shadow smites it, and lo! it is burnished like the regal purple.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
Class distinctions were observed rigidly, and the merchant clad in hodden grey and the lawyer robed in black were pushed aside with some contempt when there was any conflict between the aristocrats.
From Heroes of Modern Europe by Alice Birkhead
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