striding

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Is that the flag of your father in Washington, from whose people you receive in barter all your guns and powder and lead, your strouding and beads?

From A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois by Bennet, Robert Ames

We make up prizes for them—a pony, a blanket, strouding, etc—and we ask them to race for them.

From Siouan Sociology by Dorsey, James Owen

They were not ill-favored, these comforters of the French-Creole workmen, and were dressed in bright calicos and red strouding, plentifully adorned with bright beads.

From The Way of an Indian by Remington, Frederic

Bayeta is a bright scarlet cloth with a long nap, much finer in appearance than the scarlet strouding which forms such an important article in the Indian trade of the North.

From Navajo weavers Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-'82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 371-392. by Matthews, Washington