Loaden vs Loden - What's the difference?
loaden | loden |
(archaic)
* {{quote-book, year=1638, author=, title=Old English Plays, Vol. I, chapter=The Martyr'd Souldier, edition=
, passage=Eugenius discovered sitting loaden with many Irons, a Lampe burning by him; then enter Clowne with a piece of browne bread and a Carret roote. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1665, author=Samuel Pepys, title=Diary of Samuel Pepys, October 1665, chapter=, edition=
, passage=He did discourse to us of the Dutch fleete being abroad, eighty-five of them still, and are now at the Texell, he believes, in expectation of our Eastland ships coming home with masts and hempe, and our loaden Hambrough ships going to Hambrough. }}
A thick waterproof cloth used for garments.
*2001 , (Anthea Bell), translating WG Sebald, Austerlitz , Penguin 2011, p. 314:
*:The first thing that caught my eye on this excursion was the number of grey, brown and green loden coats and hats, and how well and sensibly everyone was dressed in general, how remarkably solid were the shoes of the pedestrians of Nuremberg.
A dark green colour, like that of loden cloth.
As a verb loaden
is past participle of load.As a noun loden is
a thick waterproof cloth used for garments.As an adjective loden is
of a dark green colour, like that of loden cloth.loaden
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