shadd

You don't complain: but your few lines this morning make the impression on me of having been written under 'a dark brown shadd! '

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

So that there is ever a 'dark brown shadd' in all my little reunions.

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

He dressed with remarkable ministerial taste, wearing the "shadd coat," straight breasted vest, and was the very picture of a "fine old-fashioned gentleman."

An Apology for African Methodism Benjamin Tucker 1867