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loden

American  
[lohd-n] / ˈloʊd n /

noun

  1. a thick, heavily fulled, waterproof fabric, used in coats and jackets for cold climates.

  2. Also called loden green.  the deep olive-green color of this fabric.


loden British  
/ ˈləʊdən /

noun

  1. a thick heavy waterproof woollen cloth with a short pile, used to make garments, esp coats

  2. a dark bluish-green colour, in which the cloth is often made

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of loden

1910–15; < German; Old High German lodo; compare Old English lotha cloak, Old Norse lothi fur cloak, lothinn shaggy

Example Sentences

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Mr. Watts, by contrast, is wearing a three-piece suit with a six-button vest in what appears to be stolid burgomaster’s loden.

From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2021

At the head of a table, under a photo of Schwarzenegger, sat Karl Schranz, eighty, four-time winner of the Hahnenkamm, in a green loden jacket.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019

My job is the sort where traditional dressing is de rigueur, and my closet has a high proportion of tweed, loden, and waxed cotton.

From Slate • Feb. 12, 2014

The show also had tailored loden coats to go with the jaunty Tyrolean hats.

From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2011

Vncertaine dread gyues wings vnto my hope, Yet my hopes wings are loden so with feare, As they cannot ascend to my hopes spheare, Yet feare gyues them more then a heauenly scope.

From Minor Poems of Michael Drayton by Brett, Cyril

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