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  • Poor Thelma sat resignedly watching her own attire taken from her, and allowing herself to be wrapped in a comfortable loose garment of white wadmel, as warm as eider-down, which Ulrika had found in a cupboard upstairs, and which, indeed, had once belonged to Thelma, she and Britta having made it together.

    Thelma Marie Corelli 1889

  • His strong, stately figure, wrapped in furs, seemed almost to fill the little place -- he had thrown aside the thick scarf of wadmel in which he had been wrapped to the eyes while driving in the teeth of the wind, -- and he now lifted his fur cap, thus displaying his silvery hair, ruddy features, and open, massive brow.

    Thelma Marie Corelli 1889

  • Shandon distributed suitable clothing to the crew, a woollen jacket and trousers, a flannel shirt, wadmel stockings, the same as those the Norwegian country-people wear, and a pair of perfectly waterproof sea-boots.

    The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras Jules Verne 1866

  • [Jymes wishes to hear from wearers of abandoned female cos-tumes, gratefully received, wadmel jumper, rather full pair of culottes and onthergarmenteries, to start city life together.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

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