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stroud(s) †
[< Stroud, Gloucester-shire, the original place of manufacture]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
a heavy woollen cloth in several colors, much used in the North during three centuries for making blankets, leggings, capotes, etc.
Quotations
1680
. . . to pay George Small Clothier 65 li. 5s. for 9 peeces of Stroad water Reds.
1794
She also requested to be wrapt up in a fathom of fine Strouds that she might appear with decency before her ancestors in the land of Spirits.
1808
Will be sold on Monday next, the I Ith instant, at Alex. Henry's Auction Room--at One o'clock, 45 Pieces Blue Strouds, 100 Pieces of 2 1/2point Blankets.
1896
"Duffel" is a thick blanket stuff, which, together with "strouds," a similar though more closely spun material, the Hudson's Bay Company introduced and christened.
1954
Red Pant, the Indians called him, because he always wore great, heavy work pants of scarlet stroud.
1963
. . . we used plain white gartered leggings, reaching halfway to the thigh, made from a very strong material called Strouds.
2n. — (usually plural)
See 1923 quote.
Quotations
1749
[If] Duffields, Strouds, Blankets . . . which would serve them for Coverings Cloaths . . . were carried to them. . . .
1923
Strouds were bolts of different coloured blanket cloth which was traded to the Indians.
1952
. . . I found myself selecting at Battleford an assortment of trade goods: blankets, strouds, prints. . . .