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loden|ˈləʊdən| [a. G. loden thick woollen cloth.] A heavy waterproof woollen cloth. Used attrib. to designate garments made of this material, as loden cloak, loden cloth, loden coat, loden jacket, loden mantle, loden skirt; also absol. Also, a dark green.
1911Galsworthy Little Dream in Plays (1929) 204 There enters a lean, well-built, taciturn young man dressed in Loden. 1914G. Atherton Perch of Devil ii. 354 She..wrapped herself in a dark lodenmantle, a long cape with a hood that she had worn..in Bavaria. 1916J. Buchan Greenmantle vii. 98 Long shooting capes made of a green stuff they call loden. Ibid. xv. 196 Blue jeans, loden cloak. 1920D. H. Lawrence Women in Love xxix. 450 The two..daughters of the professor, with their plain-cut, dark blue blouses and loden skirts. 1951V. Nabokov Speak, Memory iv. 61 He wore an ulster unless the weather was very mild, when he would switch to a kind of greenish-brown woollen cloak called a loden. 1952New Yorker 13 Dec. 128/2 A rugged coat for the country, made in Austria of greenish or brownish loden cloth and cut something like a hunting coat. 1956San Francisco Examiner 9 Sept. 1. 21 (Advt.), The original Alpine Lodencoat. 1957Times 25 Nov. 11/1 This coat is reversible, in loden cloth and water⁓proofed poplin. 1964N.Y. Post 4 Nov. 11 Russ Togs in black, brown, loden, navy, and menswear grey. 1966Listener 3 Nov. 641/1 People dressed in green Loden jackets. 1969R. T. Wilcox Dict. Costume (1970) 198/1 Loden, a waterproof cloth resembling Irish frieze, made by the Tyrolean peasants from the wool of their mountain sheep. It is woven and dyed in several colors but especially a bluish green known as loden green. 1973Guardian 10 Apr. 13/1 The greatest source of inspiration is the traditional Loden coat. |