? Obs. Also 8 strowd. [? f. Stroud in Gloucestershire.]
1. A blanket manufactured for barter or sale in trading with the North American Indians. Also stroud blanket.
1683. in C. H. Hunt, Life E. Livingston (1864), 6. Four garments of Strouds.
1751. C. Gist, Jrnls. (1893), 53. Six Strouds, two Match-Coats, and a String of Wampum.
1752. Jrnl. Capt. Treat, 52 (Cent.). Be pleased to give to the son of the Piankasha king these two strowds to clothe him.
1809. A. Henry, Trav., 119. Before him, on a new stroud blanket, was placed a bason of water.
1812. J. J. Henry, Camp. agst. Quebec, 133. A large, but coarse blue blanket, called a stroud.
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade.
2. The material of which these blankets were made.
1759. Ann. Reg., 201. 12 pieces red stroud; 15 ditto, blue.
1805. Pike, Sources Mississ. (1810), 27. Five yards of blue stroud.
1844. G. Dodd, Textile Manuf., iv. 139. A kind of cheap cloth, called ‘stroud’ made from woollen rags, was exported to North American Indians.
3. attrib.
1683. in C. H. Hunt, Life E. Livingston (1864), 7. Four Stroud-Coats and Two duffel-Coats.
Hence Strouding vbl. sb. = prec. 2.
1814. Brackenridge, Jrnl., in Views of Louisiana, 201. The merchandise, which consisted of strouding, blankets,… guns, beads, &c.
1886. Nicolay & Hay, in Century Mag., Nov., 33. He and his sons gathered hazel-nuts enough to barter at the nearest store for a few yards of blue strouding such as the Indians used for breech-clouts.
