flannel

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  1. noun A soft woven cloth of wool or a blend of wool and cotton or synthetics.
  2. noun Outer clothing, especially trousers, made of this cloth.
  3. noun Underclothing made of this cloth.
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  • The back of the quilt is flannel, the same as the green border. —  JaneVille
  • The lady in the red checked flannel is my friend Ellen.
  • It has a nice tan-colored liner that feels like a soft flannel, and the black material on the bottom of the neck roll feels like soft suede. —  webBikeWorld.com
  • I found some adorable flannels at Wal-Mart recently -- a very trendy pink plaid flannel, and a flannel print with cowboys. —  Ask MetaFilter
  • Waterbed sheets can be found in other fabric types such as flannel, percale and satin. —  xml's Blinklist.com
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  1. Middle English, a kind of woolen cloth or garment, perhaps variant of flanyn, sackcloth, probably from Old French flaine, a kind of coarse wool.

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  1. Scots and English obsolete and dial. flannen; = Dutch flanel = German flanell = Danish flanel, flonel = Swedish flanell, from Old French flanelle, French flanelle = Spanish franela = Portuguese flanella, also farinella = Italian flanella, frenella, flannel. Origin doubtful; referred by Diez and others to Old French flaine, a pillow-case, a feather-bed, modern dial. flaine, a kind of ticking. The asserted derivation from Welsh gwlanen, flannel (Wedgwood, Skeat, and others), is improbable. W. gwlanen, flannel, cf. gwlanog, woolly, from gwlan, wool, = English wool, q. v.
 

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