flanning

The hall was a regular puddle: wet dabs of dishclouts flapped in your face; soapy smoking bits of flanning went nigh to choke you; and while you were looking up to prevent hanging yourself with the ropes which were strung across and about, slap came the hedge of a pail against your shins, till one was like to be drove mad with hagony.

The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

I recklect there was at our school, in Smithfield, a chap of this milksop, spoony sort, who appeared among the romping, ragged fellers in a fine flanning dressing-gownd, that his mama had given him.

The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

That pore boy was beaten in a way that his dear ma and aunts didn't know him; his fine flanning dressing-gownd was torn all to ribbings, and he got no pease in the school ever after, but was abliged to be taken to some other saminary, where, I make no doubt, he was paid off igsactly in the same way.

The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

Smithfield, a chap of this milksop, spoony sort, who appeared among the romping, ragged fellers in a fine flanning dressing-gownd, that his mama had given him.

The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

The hall was a regular puddle: wet dabs of dishclouts flapped in your face; soapy smoking bits of flanning went nigh to choke you; and while you were looking up to prevent hanging yourself with the ropes which were strung across and about, slap came the hedge of a pail against your shins, till one was like to be drove mad with hagony.

The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

It's marginally better than them being demolished - although the gated-off nature of much of Castlefield makes it less fun for flanning about in than it ought to be.

sit down man, you're a bloody tragedy 2009

That pore boy was beaten in a way that his dear ma and aunts didn’t know him; his fine flanning dressing-gownd was torn all to ribbings, and he got no pease in the school ever after, but was abliged to be taken to some other saminary, where, I make no doubt, he was paid off igsactly in the same way.

The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006