strouding

The distinctions in manners and dress between the higher and lower classes were more marked than at present; for while John Grammar wore blue strouding, we are told that Governor Edwards dressed in fine broadcloth, white-topped boots, and a gold-laced cloak, and rode about the country in a fine carriage, driven by a negro.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various

Till then he had always worn buckskin clothes, but thinking them unbecoming a lawmaker, he and his sons gathered hazel nuts and bartered them at the crossroads store for a few yards of blue strouding, out of which the women of the settlement made him a coat and pantaloons.

A Brief History of the United States John Bach McMaster 1892

They were not ill-favored, these comforters of the French-Creole workmen, and were dressed in bright calicos and red strouding, plentifully adorned with bright beads.

The Way of an Indian Frederic Remington 1885

We make up prizes for them — a pony, a blanket, strouding, etc — and we ask them to race for them.

Siouan Sociology James Owen Dorsey 1871

When first elected he had never worn anything except leather; but regarding his tattered buckskin as unfit for the garb of a lawgiver, he and his sons gathered hazelnuts enough to barter at the nearest store for a few yards of blue strouding such as the Indians used for breech - clouts.

Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 John Hay 1870

I made four yards of British strouding at $5.50 per yard and two yards of calico at 62 cents to count three, and a knife, flint, tobacco, looking-glass, and other small articles made up the compliment.

Three Years Among the Indians and Mexicans 1846