loden

Borrowed from German Loden.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈləʊdən/

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• Rhymes: -əʊdən

loden (plural lodens)

1. A thick waterproof cloth used for garments.
   • 2011 [2001], Anthea Bell, transl., Austerlitz, Penguin, translation of original by W. G. Sebald, page 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.

2. A dark green colour, like that of loden cloth.

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loden (comparative more loden, superlative most loden)

1. Of a dark green colour, like that of loden cloth.

• Appendix:Colors

• Eldon, olden, onled

• (now dialectal, mainly Hollandic) looien

From lood +‎ -en.

• IPA^(key): /ˈloː.də(n)/

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• Rhymes: -oːdən

loden (not comparable)

1. leaden, made of lead

• dolen

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loden m (plural lodens)

1. loden (material)

• “loden”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• lòden (alternative spelling)

From Old Norse loðinn, from the Proto-Germanic past participle of *leudaną (“to sprout, spring up, grow”). Ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁lewdʰ- (“to grow”).

• IPA^(key): /²loːən/, [²lɞ̞ː.ən], /²lodːən/, [²lɞ̞d.n̩], [²lɞ̞d.den]

loden (neuter lode or lodent, definite singular and plural lodne, comparative lodnare, indefinite superlative lodnast, definite superlative lodnaste)

1. hairy, shaggy, woolly

• “loden” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈloden/ [ˈlo.ð̞ẽn]
• Rhymes: -oden
• Syllabification: lo‧den

loden m (plural lódenes)

1. loden

loden

1. definite plural of lod