linsey-woolsey

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How he got at my birth behind my tangled mat of hair and wringing linsey-woolsey I know not to this day.

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  1. noun A coarse, woven fabric of wool and cotton or of wool and linen.

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  1. Middle English linsiwolsie : alteration of linen, linen; see linen + wolle, wool; see wool.

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  1. Early modern English lynsey-wolsey, linsiewoolsie, lynsewulse, lynsye-woolsye; from late Middle English lynsy wolsye; from linsel + wool; the termination -sey being a reduction of -sel in the first element, repeated in the second, and perhaps due in part to imitation of jersey and kersey.
 

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/ˈlɪnsɪˈwəlsi/
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