linsey-woolsey

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

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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. —  Richard Carvel
  • The beaux and belles, in linsey-woolsey and buckskins, were assembled from the country around and about. —  Reminiscences of a Pioneer
  • Rosa Bonheur was ten years old: a pug-nosed, square-faced little girl in a linsey-woolsey dress, wooden shoon, with a yellow braid hanging down her back tied with a shoestring. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great
  • He brought to the camp a stout force of warriors, heavily armed, being each clad in ten pair of linsey-woolsey breeches, and overshadowed by broad-brimmed beavers, with short pipes twisted in their hat-bands. —  Washington Irving
  • Outside the clothespress, on a peg, hangs a linsey-woolsey every-day gown that shows marks of wear. —  Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great
 

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Etymologies (2)

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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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