Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A durable, water-repellent, coarse woolen fabric used chiefly for coats and jackets.
- n. A deep olive green.
Wiktionary
- n. A thick waterproof cloth used for garments.
- n. A dark green colour, like that of loden cloth.
- adj. Of a dark green colour, like that of loden cloth.
Etymologies
- From German Loden. (Wiktionary)
- German, coarse fabric, from Middle High German lode, from Old High German lodo. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It had a Red Riding Hood thing going, with models dressed in loden and purple, dressed for a hunt in the forrest.”
The Wall Street Journal: Brioni Aims for Powerful, Mature Women
“It included a rusty brown outerwear jacket with detachable fur-edged hood; a sleek charcoal cashmere round-necked dress with three-quarter-length sleeves; a loden green zipped jacket worn over a pencil skirt; a navy, three - quarter-length coat with an off-side zipper that was so "Jackie" and wearable and chic.”
The Huffington Post: Nancy Marks: Get to Know: Isaac Mizrahi
“The first thing you notice is Isaac's great sense of color: luscious deep red, tangerine, pinkberry, loden, beautiful shades of blue and gold.”
The Huffington Post: Nancy Marks: Get to Know: Isaac Mizrahi
“Evenings are rife with simple black dressing, but day calls for entrance-making loden jackets, cinched at the waist and accented with a puff of fur or a rhinestone-embellished belt.”
The Huffington Post: Felicia C. Sullivan: Sneak a Coveted Peek: LOFT Holiday 2010
“Yes, loden green and navy blue will be standing front and center on your rack, and they are ideal investments—very slimming too.”
“He is wearing his loden coat, one of those hooded Tyrolean things of coarse cloth with wooden toggles for buttons.”
“Probably not, because her body had been found still wearing that loden coat.”
“She was fully dressed and wearing a green loden coat and she was wrapped in a sheet.”
“Nadine came walking up Clinton Avenue at midnight, wearing her loden coat and her winter cap.”
““Haar,” Papa exhaled, as he saw the gray loden coat of Madame Mallory suddenly disappear around a corner stall.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘loden’.
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Used
halcyon, ineluctable, inspissated, incarnadine, askance, demur, saltation, requisite, effusive, specious, liminality, indomitable and 114 more...
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phrontistery - l
from phrontistery.info
labarum, labefactation, labeorphily, labile, lability, labret, lac, laches, lacis, laic, lam?, lar and 496 more...
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Colour Me Happy
violet, lavender, rose, eggshell, mauve, fuschia, grey, azure, almond, sienna, purple, periwinkle and 71 more...
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Color Words for Shoes
Vendors can get oddly creative.
amaranth, brindle, iguana, slate black, madder brown, bison, pinecone, seal brown, forest night, burnt orange, monument, beet red and 399 more...
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Unusual words for Words With Friends
A list of words that WWF recognizes as valid - most are unusual words; some are simply high-scoring.
botel, slipe, jeu, chub, chubs, cote, mure, tittle, dev, loo, hoke, helo and 357 more...
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color me mauve
color words
albescent, ecru, eggshell, mauve, taupe, ochre, ashen, goldenrod, gamboge, cream, saffron, mustard and 109 more...
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wunderkammer's Words
smarmy, bubkes, elucidate, togs, aeolian, carp, kibosh, bosky, ramshackle, mange, harpy, effervesce and 163 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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discoveries
These are lexical items new to me that I've discovered in actual use (i.e. not in dictionaries, lists, or this site).
Looking back over this list, I haven't the slightest idea what mos...haymow, hawsepipe, stridor, bariatric, autotelic, apotropaic, cyanotype, tourelle, autobody, zudecca, stifado, corbeille and 1073 more...
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flannagan's Words
netop, kenspeckle, loden, framboise, providence, milquetoast, schism, cadence, thrush, asphodel, clandestine, aesthete and 196 more...
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Chromonyms
These chromonyms are defined as colors in at least one dictionary (mostly MW3). (Actually there's one fake, for reasons I'll explain someday.) They are all one-word nouns such as "kelly", which can...
absinthe, acacia, acorn, alabaster, alesan, almond, aloma, amaranth, amber, amethyst, anemone, anil and 821 more...
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wearable materials
fabrics, wools, furs, etc.
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wordrainbow
A big list of color names for use on wordrainbow.com
emerald, cherry, coffee, cream, almond, gold, kiwi, green, grass green, aquamarine, beet red, sepia and 714 more...
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Speak, Memory
Words gathered while reading Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov.
cracknel, shingly, glaucous, stretcherman, goodish, loden, gutticle, percha, plasticine, instar, wellhole, camera-lucida and 357 more...
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Fabrics
Woven, knit and tatted fabrics. Other kinds of cloth, such as tapa and chamois are not included.
shikii, shantung, cotton, linen, tweed, wool, velour, velvet, velveteen, gabardine, chenille, silk and 550 more...
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yardage
types of fabric
cotton, wool, silk, linen, rayon, nylon, spandex, lycra, lurex, goretex, challis, brocade and 77 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for loden.
seanahan A fabric used in coats, the color of a deep olive-green. Jan 4, 2008
bilby "He wore a green loden coat and a hunter's hat and held a rifle at the ready as though at any moment he might raise it and blow some small animal to pieces."
- 'The Colour Of Blood', Brian Moore. Jan 3, 2008