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stroud

 (stroud)
n.
A coarse woolen cloth or blanket.

[After Stroud, an urban district of southwest-central England.]
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stroud

(straʊd) or

strouding

n
(Textiles) a coarse woollen fabric
[C17: perhaps named after Stroud, textile centre in Gloucestershire]
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stroud

(straʊd)

n.
a coarse woolen cloth, blanket, or garment formerly used by the British in bartering with the North American Indians.
[1670–80; perhaps after Stroud, town in Gloucestershire, England]
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References in classic literature ?
Pickwick's notes of the four towns, Stroud, Rochester, Chatham, and Brompton, that his impressions of their appearance differ in any material point from those of other travellers who have gone over the same ground.
It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross.
COVENTRY Building Society will merge with rival Stroud & Swindon, it has been announced.
UK mortgage lender Coventry Building Society (LON:CVB) said today it has agreed to acquire smaller sector firm Stroud & Swindon Building Society, a move that would bring combined assets to GBP21.1bn (USD31.7bn/EUR23.4bn).
M2 EQUITYBITES-9 March 2010-Coventry and Stroud & Swindon building societies confirm merger talks(C)2010 M2 COMMUNICATIONS http://www.m2.com
Mining companies Laurion Mineral Exploration Incorporated (Laurion) (TSX VENTURE: LME) and Stroud Resources Limited (Stroud) (TSX VENTURE: SDR) have signed a letter of intent for Laurion to receive an option to acquire up to 60 percent of the mineral rights of Stroud's 100 percent legal interest in the Leckie Lake Gold Property.
Business owners in Stroud, Gloucestershire, are launching the "Stroud Pound" to promote local stores and keep villagers spending.
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-9 June 2009-Intelligent EnvironmentsA Group plc signs online support deal with Stroud & Swindon(C)1994-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS http://www.m2.com
Barbara Robin Fiser and John Justin Stroud were united in marriage at four o'clock in the afternoon on Saturday, October 27, 2007, at First Baptist Church in Jackson.
Supported by NatWest in Southport, Stroud Engineering Supplies has purchased a new unit next to its existing base in Knowsley Industrial Park to increase its storage and warehouse capacity.
The Worcester based business services team of leading firm of solicitors, Harrison Clark LLP, has recently advised the management team on the buy-out of Stroud Office Interiors Limited, based at Woodchester in Stroud, Gloucestershire.
The latest news to be dished-up is that Stroud Farmers' Market in the south of the region has recently been named the "FARMA Certified Farmers' Market of the Year 2008".