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stroud ? Obs.|straʊd|
Also 8 strowd.
[? f. Stroud in Gloucestershire.]
1. A blanket manufactured for barter or sale in trading with the North American Indians. Also stroud blanket.
1683in C. H. Hunt Life E. Livingston (1864) 6 Four garments of Strouds. 1751C. Gist Jrnls. (1893) 53 Six Strouds, two Match-Coats, and a String of Wampum. 1752Jrnl. Capt. Treat 52 (Cent.) Be pleased to give to the son of the Piankasha king these two strowds to clothe him. 1809A. Henry Trav. 119 Before him, on a new stroud blanket, was placed a bason of water. 1812J. J. Henry Camp. agst. Quebec 133 A large, but coarse blue blanket, called a stroud. 1846T. L. McKenney Mem. I. i. 21 It was not so much a competition in blankets, and strouds, and calicoes..as in whiskey. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade. 1872Rep. Indian Affairs 1871 (U.S.) 459 Blankets, leggings, strouds, paints.
2. The material of which these blankets were made.
1759Ann. Reg. 201, 12 pieces red stroud; 15 ditto, blue. 1805Pike Sources Mississ. (1810) 27 Five yards of blue stroud. 1844G. Dodd Textile Manuf. iv. 139 A kind of cheap cloth, called ‘stroud’ made from woollen rags, was exported to North American Indians.
3. attrib.
1683in C. H. Hunt Life E. Livingston (1864) 7 Four Stroud-Coats and Two duffel-Coats. 1751G. Croghan in Pennyslvania Colonial Rec. (1851) V. 531, I gave him a Strowd Shirt, Match Coat [etc.]. 1934P. H. Godsell Arctic Trader 39 A dozen other drivers, all clad in..blue stroud leggings and fur caps.
Hence ˈstrouding vbl. n. = prec. 2.
1814Brackenridge Jrnl. in Views of Louisiana 201 The merchandise, which consisted of strouding, blankets,..guns, beads, &c. 1886Century Mag. Nov. 33/2 A few yards of blue strouding such as the Indians used for breech-clouts. |