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stroud(s) † Stroud(s) [< Stroud, Gloucester-shire, the original place of manufacture]

• 1 n. a heavy woollen cloth in several colors, much used in the North during three centuries for making blankets, leggings, capotes, etc.

  See also: duffle  Hudson's Bay strouds  strouding  

  • 1680  (1945)  . . . to pay George Small Clothier 65 li. 5s. for 9 peeces of Stroad water Reds.
  • 1794  (1929)  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.

• 2 n. (usually plural) See 1923 quote.

  • 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. . . .