Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete or dialectal variant of
flannel .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Made or consisting of flannel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Made of
flannel .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Dressmaking didn't pay so well in the bush then as it did in the old diggings days when sewing-machines were scarce and the possession of one meant an independent living to any girl -- when diggers paid ten shillings for a strip of "flannen" doubled over and sewn together, with holes for arms and head, and called a shirt.
Children of the Bush Henry Lawson 1894
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I began therefore to look about the room, for fear somewhat or other might drop through the ceiling; while the servant that had bound up his arm in white, not scarlet-colour flannen, was soundly beaten: Now was I much out, for instead of another course, came in an order of
The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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I've b'en at Clem fur five years to buy him union suits; but he's always b'en so stuck on red flannen.
The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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An 'he had two pairs o' them white flannen britches, but hones'ly, Miz Baxter, I don't scarcely think Genesis would wear 'em, the way they is now!
Seventeen 1915
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Their sarks, instead o 'creeshie flannen, [greasy flannel]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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An 'he had two pairs o' them white flannen britches, but hones'ly, Miz Baxter,
Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William Booth Tarkington 1907
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It's as red as a flannen drawer, every bit an 'grain!
Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906
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So I knitted him a muffler for his throat and lined his weskit wi 'flannen; I brewed him hot drinks made out o' herbs I'd gethered i 'the hedgerows i' summertime, and rubbed his chest wi 'a mixture o' saim frae the pig-killing, and honey frae the bee-skeps.
More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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She held up her weak arms, and gathered the little bundle o 'warm flannen into 'em; and when she got it close she shut her eyes and moved her lips, and I knew she was taking her lamb to the altar and offering it up as a sacrifice.
The Village Watch-Tower Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889
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Flannel (originally flanyn or flannen) almost certainly derives from the Welsh (g) wlanen, ultimately gwln ` wool. '
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