maud

Example Sentences

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Hogg was perhaps the most remarkable man that ever wore the maud of a shepherd.

From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)

Then wrapping himself in a large maud and pulling a slouched hat over his eyes, he left the room, descended the stairs and went out.

From Self-Raised Or, From the Depths by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte

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 Bennett, Arnold

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 Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

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 Lang, Andrew