Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A knitted, unbleached cotton fabric for underwear.
Wiktionary
- n. An unbleached, knitted, cotton fabric mostly used for underwear.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a cotton knit fabric used for underwear
Etymologies
- From Balbriggan, a place in Ireland. (Wiktionary)
- After Balbriggan, a seaport of eastern Ireland. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The most popular lunchtime dish, Mr. Boyle says, is the balbriggan salmon, served atop sweet potatoes and spinach in a sweet malt vinegar sauce.”
“The balbriggan cotton cup dangled in the air as Milt expanded the length of elastic, then released it with a snap.”
“But fancy the shock to one's æstheticism at seeing coarse balbriggan allied to barbaric splendour.”
“There were men in complete Moro costume, handsome and picturesque; others ruining their appearance by the addition of a hideous balbriggan undershirt, sandwiched between tight trousers with innumerable buttons and a brilliantly coloured turban; while still others, in little else than a fez and breech-clout, seemed not a whit abashed.”
“Six changes of underwear -- merino or wool -- and a dozen balbriggan or woolen hose will be sufficient.”
“Martin Dockerill ate pun'kin pie with his fingers, played "Marching through Georgia" on the mouth-organ, admired burlesque-show women in sausage-shaped pink tights, and wore balbriggan socks that always reposed in wrinkles over the tops of his black shoes with frayed laces.”
“After a pause, Aunt Selina got up heavily and went upstairs, coming down soon after with a bundle covered with a green shawl, and with a white balbriggan stocking trailing from an opening in it.”
“Walter Gresham occupy residence lots worth $1,000 each, but that you inhabit a $1,500 cottage and he a $150,000 mansion; and suppose that your income is $2,000 a year while his is $20,000: Do you think there is any necessity for tearing your balbriggan undershirt because not compelled to put up as much for the maintenance of government as your wealthy neighbor?”
“Ordinary Peruvian cotton has a fibre nearly two inches long; it is used in the manufacture of hosiery and balbriggan underwear, and also to adulterate wool.”
Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges
“Egyptian cotton is very fine and is used mainly in the manufacture of thread and the finer grades of balbriggan underwear.”
Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘balbriggan’.
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phrontistery - b
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blandish, blazon, blench, blendling, blendure, blewit, blunge, blype, borné, borsella, borzoi, boscage and 582 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Fibers & Fabrics
zibeline, havelock, pashmina, qiviut, sartorial, noil, balbriggan, fichu, bombazine, cambric, placket, gabardine and 28 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, B
bloviate, bejesus, brouhaha, behoove, bodacious, bamboozle, banshee, bub, bolus, blob, bubbly, bleb and 414 more...
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Fabrics
Woven, knit and tatted fabrics. Other kinds of cloth, such as tapa and chamois are not included.
shikii, shantung, cotton, linen, tweed, wool, velour, velvet, velveteen, gabardine, chenille, silk and 550 more...
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eponymous fabrics or articles of clot...
several of these characters seem to have been involved in the Crimean War
cardigan, balbriggan, balaclava, raglan, macintosh, madras, cashmere, angora, denim, oxford, wigan, bloomers and 24 more...
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Textiles
A list from the 1911 edition of "Words: Their Spelling, Pronunciation, Definition, Application" by the Gregg Publishing Company.
aigrette, a la mode, Amazon, applique, armure, baize, balbriggan, balmoral, batiste, bedticking, bobbinet, buckram and 88 more...
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I've Been Cornobbled!
From Uncle John's Unstoppable Bathroom Reader:
"You won't find these archaic words in most dictionaries, but take our word for it--they're real. And just for fun, try to use them in a ...hobberdehoy, faffle, dasypygal, cornobble, collieshangie, wem, calcographer, bodewash, twiddlepoop, liripoop, leptorrhinian, bridelope and 61 more...
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Daily
thaumaturgy, lagniappe, gabble, Cytherean, samizdat, lixiviate, quintal, Rabelaisian, prescind, duende, deglutition, mancinism and 69 more...
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