linsey-woolsey

• “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.”

  Simon & Schuster: George Washington’s First War

• “Other textiles boast names utterly mysterious to us, opening up a lost world of camblet and fustian, susy and cherryderry, calimanco and linsey-woolsey.”

  The Guardian: Threads of feeling

• “*Some old timers add linsey-woolsey or cotton britches winter as the last one, meaning the day you can stop wearing the long underwear.”

  Winters Of Spring « Fairegarden

• “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

• “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

• “The lady-mother still distributeth tracts, and knitteth Berlin linsey-woolsey.”

  Novels by Eminent Hands

• “May be, an old silk gown, and a linsey-woolsey petticoat, and the like.”

  Pamela

• “Last and chief, while literature, gagged with linsey-woolsey, can only deal with a fraction of the life of man, talk goes fancy free and may call a spade a spade.”

  Memories and Portraits

• “SIR, — Yours received, and am surprized you should use me in this manner, as have never seen any of your cash, unless for one linsey-woolsey coat, and your bill now is upwards of L150.”

  The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

• “But what linsey-woolsey hast thou to speak to us again?”

  All’s Well That Ends Well

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