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Loden vs Laden - What's the difference?

loden | laden |

As adjectives the difference between loden and laden

is that loden is of a dark green colour, like that of loden cloth while laden is weighed down with a load, burdened.

As a noun loden

is a thick waterproof cloth used for garments.

As a verb laden is

past participle of lang=en.

loden

English

(wikipedia loden)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of a dark green colour, like that of loden cloth.
  • See also

    *

    laden

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Weighed down with a load, burdened.
  • * 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
  • The other men were variously burthened; some carrying picks and shovels—for that had been the very first necessary they brought ashore from the Hispaniola —others laden with pork, bread, and brandy for the midday meal.
  • Heavy.
  • Oppressed.
  • *
  • Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden , drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;.
  • (label) In the form of an adsorbate or adduct.
  • Verb

    (head)