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- noun uncountable
wool from alamb - noun by extension, countable something made of wool from a lamb
Etymologies
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Examples
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Gerard found that "the pulp of roasted Apples, mixed in a wine quart of faire water, and laboured together until it comes to be as Apples and ale -- which we call lambswool (Celtic,
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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The wassail-bowl -- one cannot leave the subject of English Yuletide feasting without a few words upon this beloved beaker of hot spiced ale and toasted apples ( "lambswool").
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles
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Socks stuffed with lambswool can cushion where a K-9 Kart chafes at dogs 'thin skin between legs and body (I had a paralyzed Welsh Corgi for years).
Turn Old Socks Into Foot Odour Killers | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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One of my hobbies is lampworking, and an old sock stuffed with lambswool and then covered in a fire-retardant sleeve works well for cushioning my elbows when I work!!
Turn Old Socks Into Foot Odour Killers | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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And then here is Michael Cunningham in a tiny bookstore surrounded by short-haired women in lambswool ponchos, and Chelsea boys in their distressed jeans, and perhaps a Peter or two.
Michael Cunningham and a new generation of writers transcend 'gay literature' Dan Zak 2010
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Karzai lost whatever cool he has left under that hot lambswool cap he wears.
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These cars have the über-engineered carbon fiber bodies, obscene amounts of horsepower and excessive creature comforts silver champagne flutes and lambswool carpeting, anyone? that draw big price tags.
The World's Most Expensive Cars Hannah Elliott 2010
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His black curls like lambswool danced in the wind.
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The Shetland lambswool she uses is lined up in rainbow colours along a wall and dyed before it is spun, resulting in attractive irregularities of tone.
How to weave a blanket Melissa Viney 2010
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I put my hand to my own hair, felt the lack of it, the chill, and in my ear a whisper, like the whisper of wool; a shawl around my head, a softness like lambswool: a forgetting.
Hilary Mantel Comma 2010
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