cottonade

[ kot-n-eyd ]

noun

1. a heavy, coarse fabric made of cotton or mixed fibers and often resembling wool, used in the manufacture of work clothes.

cottonade

/ ˌkɒtəˈneɪd /

noun

1. a coarse fabric of cotton or mixed fibres, used for work clothes, etc

Word History and Origins

Origin of cottonade¹

From the French word cotonnade, dating back to 1795–1805. See cotton, -ade ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of cottonade¹

C19: from French cotonnade, from coton cotton + -ade

Example Sentences

Blanket-coats of red, blue, and green; linsey woolseys of coarse texture, grey or copper-coloured; red flannel shirts; jackets of brown linen, or white—some of yellow nankin cotton—a native fabric; some of sky-blue cottonade; hunting-shirts of dressed deer-skin, with moccasins and leggins; boots of horse or alligator hide, high-lows, brogans—in short, every variety of chaussure known throughout the States.

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The dress I knew well—the blue cottonade trousers, the striped shirt, and palmetto hat.

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The gentlemen, almost without exception, wear pantaloons of blue cottonade, coarse and unsightly in its appearance, but which many exquisites have recently taken a fancy to adopt.

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The foremost was a seven-year-old negro girl, in a single short cottonade garment, wizened, barelegged and bareheaded, her black wool parted in little angular patches and tightly wrapped with bits of cord.

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It will be a sorrowful time to me when all the tribes of the earth shall have cottonade trousers and derby hats.

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