单词 | hodden |
释义 | hoddenn. Scottish. 1. a. Woollen cloth of a coarse quality such as used to be made by country weavers on their hand-looms. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from wool > [noun] > coarse or rough > hodden hodden grey1725 hodden1792 1792 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. IV. 242 Of the wool..is manufactured almost every kind of cloth worn in the parish; hodden, which is most used for herds cloaks, and is sold at 1s. 8d. the yard; plaiding [etc.]. ?a1800 Bonnie Lizzie Lindsay xxx, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1892) IV. viii. ccxxvi. 262/2 And make us a bed o green rashes, And covert wi huddins sae grey. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. iii. iv. 186 Behold how their Peasants, in mere russet and hodden,..dash at us like a dark whirlwind. Categories » b. attributive or adj. 2. a. hodden grey n. Grey hodden, made without dyeing, ‘by mingling one black fleece with a dozen white ones’ ( Gloss. to Burns, Paterson, 1877). Applied to the ‘cloth worn by the peasantry, which has the natural colour of the wool’ (Jamieson). Hence often taken as the typical garb of homely rusticity.A poetic inversion of grey hodden, used for rhyme's sake by Ramsay in a well-known passage, whence also in Burns, which has thence become a stock phrase, the two words being often hyphenated, as if ‘hodden’ were a qualification of ‘grey’, or ‘hodden-grey’ were a colour. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > made from specific material > wool > types of russeta1450 raploch1535 russetinga1588 sheep's russet1590 hodden grey1725 flannels1888 woolly1899 loden1911 red flannel1940 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from wool > [noun] > coarse or rough > hodden hodden grey1725 hodden1792 1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd v. ii. 78 But Meg, poor Meg! maun with the shepherds stay, And tak what God will send in Hodden-gray. 1795 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 762 What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin grey and a' that. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality viii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 161 An old woman..supported by a stout, stupid-looking fellow, in hoddin-grey. 1837 R. Nicoll Poems (1843) 175 His coat is hame-spun hodden-gray. 1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend i. 35 He went..Clothed in a cloak of hodden grey. b. figurative. ΚΠ 1866 C. Rossetti Prince's Progress xvii And heaven put off its hodden grey For mother-o'-pearl. a1882 J. G. Whittier Garris. Cape Ann iv Golden-threaded fancies weaving in a web of hodden gray. Compounds hodden-clad adj. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from wool > [adjective] > coarse wadmal1522 kersey1577 minikin1604 green baize1758 hodden-clad1812 1812 W. Tennant Anster Fair ii. xx. 33 Tenant and laird, and hedger hodden-clad. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. vi. 65 The hodden or russet individuals are Uncustomary. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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