Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A material made of cotton and wool, as distinguished from linsey, which is made of linen and wool.
- noun Same as
linsey-woolsey , 1.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Linsey-woolsey.
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- noun
linsey-woolsey
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Examples
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July 5th, 2006 at 8: 53 pm james risser says: woolsey is a former cia director, katy … he was on cnn earlier today talking about killing koreans, and it said ‘aspen colorado’ under his name …
Think Progress » BREAKING: Former Enron CEO Ken Lay is dead. 2006
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Sir told Mistress to give me an itchy woolsey sack dress to wear.
Eliza’s Freedom Road Jerdine Nolen 2011
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Sir told Mistress to give me an itchy woolsey sack dress to wear.
Eliza’s Freedom Road Jerdine Nolen 2011
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Other textiles boast names utterly mysterious to us, opening up a lost world of camblet and fustian, susy and cherryderry, calimanco and linsey-woolsey.
Threads of feeling Kathryn Hughes 2010
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Sir told Mistress to give me an itchy woolsey sack dress to wear.
Eliza’s Freedom Road Jerdine Nolen 2011
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Sir told Mistress to give me an itchy woolsey sack dress to wear.
Eliza’s Freedom Road Jerdine Nolen 2011
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*Some old timers add linsey-woolsey or cotton britches winter as the last one, meaning the day you can stop wearing the long underwear.
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All she had was a lindsey-woolsey blanket to cover her to keep warm.
Warmth.... Gumbo Lily 2009
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I have a snippet of one of the home-made lindsey-woolsey blankets she brought over--it is very thin.
Warmth.... Gumbo Lily 2009
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Linsey-woolsey is a plain woven fabric with linen or cotton warp and woolen weft used in early America for warmth.
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