etoffe

Et que cette etoffe blanche qui chante a la fois dans l'air et dans le terre

James Scarborough: "Prelude to an Apocalypse: Landscape in an Era of Diminished Expectations," Pedersen Projects 2010

Warm cloth of drugget -- etoffe du pays, as it was called -- came from the hand-looms of every parish.

The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism William Bennett Munro 1916

My dress consisted of a scarlet flannel shirt, and a pair of _etoffe du pays_ trousers, which were fastened round my waist by a leathern bolt, from which depended a small hunting-knife; a foraging cap and deer-skin moccasins completed my costume.

Hudson Bay 1859

Brantôme speaks of it with enthusiasm, and quotes it repeatedly; Lafontaine, the conteur par excellence, acknowledges his obligations to it; Montaigne calls it un gentil livre pour son etoffe – "a nice book for its matter;" and Bayle says it is, "after the manner of Boccace's novels," and "has beauties in that kind which are surprising."

The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre 1855