Also cotonnade. [a. F. cotonnade cotton cloth: see -ADE.] A name for various cotton fabrics, especially of coarse or inferior quality; cotton check. Also attrib.
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, Cotonnade (French), cotton check.
1862. H. Marryat, Year in Sweden, II. 440. The people have that draggled appearance so peculiar to provinces where costume is no more—where cotonnades and Orleans stuffs have replaced the durable homespun of their forefathers.
1881. G. W. Cable, Mad. Delphine, vi. 47. A man entered, dressed in dark blue cottonade.
1885. J. Lane Allen, in Harper’s Mag., April, 709/1. Blue cottonade pantaloons.
