Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Dyed in the wool—that is, before spinning or weaving: as wool-dyed cloth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Dyed before being made into cloth, in distinction from
piece-dyed ; ingrain.
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- adjective
Dyed before being made intocloth , in distinction from piece-dyed. - adjective figuratively
dyed in the wool ; set in one's ways;steadfast
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Examples
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Women's Parliament and the Sisters of Sorosis, advocated negro suffrage with the full expectation of sharing the franchise with PETE and CUFF; but alas! while these wool-dyed Africans are conducted in triumph to the ballot-box, _they_ are ignominiously thrust back from it.
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That Fremont is a wool-dyed Democrat abolitionist none will deny, and if I can prove from the political record of James Buchanan that he entertains views and opinions as obnoxious to the institutions of the South, the stability and perpetuity of this Union, Professor Hedrick at least will have the gratification to know that he is not alone in his views, on this vexed question.
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To that hi-toned man and wool-dyed Dimokrat, Franklin Peerse, uv Noo Hampshire;
The Nasby papers 1864
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Rome and the Enemy shatters our wool-dyed clichés of old Rome.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Michael Vlahos 2009
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