Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A coarse, woven fabric of wool and cotton or of wool and linen.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A coarse and stout material of which the warp is linen and the woof woolen.
- noun A similar material into which cotton enters either with or without linen.
- noun Inferior fabrics of doubtful or uncertain materials: a term of depreciation.
- noun Anything unsuitably mixed; a farrago of nonsense; jargon; gibberish.
- Made of linen and wool mixed.
- Of different and unsuitable parts; neither one thing nor another; ill-assorted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Cloth made of linen and wool, mixed.
- noun obsolete Jargon.
- adjective Made of linen and wool; hence, of different and unsuitable parts; mean.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a fabric made of both
linen andwool .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a rough fabric of linen warp and wool or cotton woof
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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By “Indian dress” he meant costume common to whites as well as Indians in the west: moccasins, leggings, breechclout, and a hunting shirt, a knee-length smock of linen, wool, or linsey-woolsey, drab and durable.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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By “Indian dress” he meant costume common to whites as well as Indians in the west: moccasins, leggings, breechclout, and a hunting shirt, a knee-length smock of linen, wool, or linsey-woolsey, drab and durable.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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By “Indian dress” he meant costume common to whites as well as Indians in the west: moccasins, leggings, breechclout, and a hunting shirt, a knee-length smock of linen, wool, or linsey-woolsey, drab and durable.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 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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By “Indian dress” he meant costume common to whites as well as Indians in the west: moccasins, leggings, breechclout, and a hunting shirt, a knee-length smock of linen, wool, or linsey-woolsey, drab and durable.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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She hid the papers for General Washington under the bodice of her linsey-woolsey dress, and fastened her neckerchief over the bodice.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2009
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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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I had put on my linsey-woolsey dress, as the roads might at times be dusty and the few articles I needed made only a small bundle.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2009
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The lady-mother still distributeth tracts, and knitteth Berlin linsey-woolsey.
Burlesques 2006
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The lady-mother still distributeth tracts, and knitteth Berlin linsey-woolsey.
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