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

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 Wilson, John Lyde

He remembered her of old a daring and entrancing vocalist, in the harmony one thread of gold among the hodden grey of those simple unstudied psalmodists.

From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Munro, Neil

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)

Mungo was finished with the coat; he held it out at arm's length, admiring its plenitude of lace, and finally put off his own hodden garment that he might try on the Chamberlain's.

From Doom Castle by Munro, Neil

Man, the great mime, must move the Momus vein, Whether he follow fashion or the wain, In ermine or in hodden.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, January 25th, 1890 by Various