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stroud

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stroud  (stroud)
n.
A coarse woolen cloth or blanket.
[After Stroud, an urban district of southwest-central England.]
stroud [straʊd]
n
(Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) a coarse woollen fabric
[perhaps named after Stroud, textile centre in Gloucestershire]
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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.
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club by Dickens, Charles View in context
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.
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