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HODDEN (a word of unknown origin)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 556 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HODDEN (a word of unknown origin)  , a coarse kind of
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cloth made of undyed wool, formerly much worn by the peasantry of Scotland . It was usually made on small hand-looms by the peasants themselves . Grey hodden was made by mixing black and white fleeces together in the proportion of one to twelve when
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weaving .

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