maud
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Well, I declare!" wrathfully began Hannah, but Ishmael gently interrupted her: "I have bought a fine Scotch tartan shawl for you, Aunt Hannah, and a heavy shepherd's maud for Uncle Reuben.
From Self-Raised Or, From the Depths by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
As Lockhart truly says, Hogg "was the most extraordinary man that ever wore the maud of a shepherd."
From Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy by Andrew Lang
Before we set out to meet the fugitive, I caused them to disguise themselves—your mother having my wife's maud, and she a dress she had never before worn.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various
She put a new candle in her lantern; she changed her shawl for a maud, and leaving the door on latch, she sallied out.
From Half a Life-Time Ago by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
There was: a figure swathed in an ulster, a maud over the ulster, and a high hat on the top of all.
From The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
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