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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stroud \Stroud\, n. A kind of coarse blanket or garment used by the North American Indians.
Wiktionary
n. A kind of coarse blanket or garment used by Native Americans.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 1325
Land area (2000): 11.496263 sq. miles (29.775182 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.986935 sq. miles (2.556150 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 12.483198 sq. miles (32.331332 sq. km)
FIPS code: 71000
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 35.759098 N, 96.652162 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Stroud
Wikipedia
Stroud is a town and civil parish in the county of Gloucestershire, England.
Stroud or Strouds may also refer to:
Stroud is a market town and civil parish in the county of Gloucestershire, England. It is the main town in Stroud District.
Situated below the western escarpment of the Cotswold Hills at the meeting point of the Five Valleys, the town is noted for its steep streets, independent spirit and cafe culture. The Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty surrounds the town, and the Cotswold Way path passes by it to the west.
Although not formally part of the town, the parishes of Rodborough and Cainscross lie adjacent to Stroud and are often considered part of it.
Stroud acts as a centre for surrounding villages and small market towns including Amberley, Bisley, Chalford, Dudbridge, Dursley, Minchinhampton, Nailsworth, Oakridge, Painswick, Sheepscombe, Slad, Stonehouse, Thrupp and Woodchester.
Stroud is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Neil Carmichael, a Conservative.
Stroud is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Barry Stroud, American philosopher
- Byron Stroud, Canadian musician
- David Stroud, British footballer
- Don Stroud, American actor
- Donna Stroud, American lawyer
- Jack Stroud, American footballer
- James Stroud, American musician and award winning record producer
- John Stroud, American basketball player
- Jonathan Stroud, author of the Bartimaeus Trilogy
- Ken Stroud, author of mathematics textbooks
- Kenny Stroud, British footballer
- Les Stroud, Canadian television survival enthusiast
- Marcus Stroud, American football player
- Mike Stroud (disambiguation), multiple people with this name
- Morris Stroud, American football player
- Peter Stroud, American guitarist
- Reuben W. Stroud, New York engineer and politician
- Robert Franklin Stroud, murderer, author, & subject of the book & films Birdman of Alcatraz
- William Stroud, Physics Professor at what is now Leeds University, who in the 1880s simplified the form of word problems for engineers
Usage examples of "stroud".
Wilton seated himself by the side of Laura, the postilion cracked his whip, which was then as common in England as it is now in France, the horses went forward, and the wheels rolling through the little street of High Halstow, were soon upon the road to Stroud.
Bedford Lankford, what preached to the white folks helped a Negro, named Cy Stroud, to preach to the Negroes.
My father was a liveryman like his father before him, a member of the Honourable Company of Stockjobbers and Brokers, and ended his career as the partner in charge of settlements at Carruthers and Stroud, before it was acquired after Big Bang, and my grandfather was a private client stockbroker at the same firm.
Not one of them seemed to be absent--Drury, Midwinter, Cely, Bartholomew, Grevel, Hicks, Marner, Tame, Sylvester, Whittington--representing every stone town from Stroud to Witney, from Fairford on Thames to Stratford on Avon.
Irascible Mason, known up and down the Churs of Stroud, on occasions like this, as a lightning Shin-Kicker, has actually begun shuffling to seek some purchase upon the gleaming floor, when he belatedly recognizes the notorious Calvert agent Captain Dasp, to smoak whose Dangerousness even those of an Idiocy far more advanc'd than Mason's require but an anxious few seconds.
The Strouds stand alone, and happen once—but there's no exterminating our kind of art.
The Strouds stand alone, and happen once -- but there's no exterminating our kind of art.
A dark, heavy-featured warrior, gaily bedecked in bright colored trader strouds, a blue and scarlet blanket draped about his lean waist.