2. Noun. A dark green colour, like that of loden cloth. ¹
3. Adjective. Of a dark green colour, like that of loden cloth. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Loden
1. a thick, woolen fabric [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Loden
Literary usage of Loden
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1847)
"... that he was honoured with the name of Bumper John, to distinguish him from
all other Lairds of C'ul- loden." Great research aud pains have evidently ..."
2. The Bible Word-book: A Glossary of Archaic Words and Phrases in the by Jonathan Eastwood, William Aldis Wright (1884)
"... and the stalke so charged and loden with a heauie head that the corne standeth
not upright, but is lodged and lieth along. ..."
3. The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray (1862)
"In contemporary caricatures, George's son, " the Hero of Cul- loden," is also
made an object of considerable fun, as witness the following picture of him ..."
4. Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis by Charles Vallancey (1786)
"135 and 151, more plainly lays it is Moren loden, which according to Rab. ...
mail be called loden Muren. for he (hall be the judge, ..."
5. Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicus by Charles Vallancey (1786)
"135 and 151, more plainly fays it is Moren loden, which according to Rab. ...
is alfo loden Moran. Rab. Meir calls it Doen Moren. The Rab. in Talmud fay, ..."
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