Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A soft woven cloth of wool or a blend of wool and cotton or synthetics.
- n. Outer clothing, especially trousers, made of this cloth.
- n. Underclothing made of this cloth.
- n. Flannelette.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A warm loosely woven woolen stuff used especially for undergarments, bed-covering, etc., but also to some extent for outer garments, in styles adapted for that purpose. Some flannels have both sides alike; others have a long nap on one side and none on the other.
- n. A warming drink; hot gin and beer seasoned with nutmeg, sugar, etc.
- n. A person of homely or uncouth dress, exterior, or manners.
- Made of flannel; consisting of flannel: as, flannel clothing.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable A soft cloth material woven from wool, possibly combined with cotton or synthetic fibers.
- n. New Zealand, UK A washcloth.
- adj. made of flannel
- v. transitive to rub with a flannel
- v. to flatter; suck up to
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A soft, nappy, woolen cloth, of loose texture.
- n. a cotton fabric with a thick nap on one side, resembling flannel{1}; it is used, e. g. for underwear or sheets; also called
flanellette . - n. garments made of flannel, especially underwear.
- n. Brit. a washcloth.
- n. Brit. informal humbug; nonsensical or evasive talk.
- n. Brit. informal insincere flattery or praise.
WordNet 3.0
- n. bath linen consisting of a piece of cloth used to wash the face and body
- n. a soft light woolen fabric; used for clothing
- n. (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth
Etymologies
- Middle English flaunneol, from Anglo-Norman flanelle (cf. Jersiais flianné), diminutive of Old French flaine, floene 'coarse wool', from Gaulish vlanā ‘wool’ (cf. Welsh gwlân, Breton gloan). More at wool. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, a kind of woolen cloth or garment, perhaps variant of flanyn, sackcloth, probably from Old French flaine, a kind of coarse wool. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“If he did not already wear flannel waistcoats, let it be winter or summer, I should recommend him immediately to do so: if it be winter, I should advise him also to take to _flannel_ drawers.”
“It has an independent drugstore; men in flannel browsing around the Power Center, which sells lawn mowers and chain saws; and four kinds of potato salad in the Piggly Wiggly.”
“You think Han Solo would look better in flannel cause he looks a little sissy in that vest.”
“If you're going to be a bunch of beards in flannel shirts like every other hipster group you should at least have some original stuff and come out swinging.”
“Across the street, a mysterious arm clad in flannel pulls the curtain aside to watch the girls go into the house.”
“A hot stone wrapped in Welsh flannel for the sick man's feet, a long and vigorous rub for chest and throat and ribs, down to the waist, with an ointment of goose-grease impregnated with mustard and other heat-giving herbs, and chest and throat then swathed in a strip of the same flannel, cool cloths on the dry forehead, and a hot draught of wine mulled with spices and borage and other febrifuge herbs.”
“The philosophers dressed themselves in flannel shirts, and built themselves a rough shelter in the Adirondacks.”
“There was suspicion in the gesture with which, when we were back in the drawing-room he picked up the flannel from the work-table.”
“The whole business – followed by highwaymen in flannel shirts and revolvers.”
“There were other loafers in flannel shirts, hitched up trousers and greasy felt or cabbage-tree hats, and there were two or three blacks of the demoralised type seen in coast townships.”
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