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  • noun US woolen clothes collectively

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Examples

  • As for shopping, yes, the quality of the woolens is superb.

    La Pena De Bernal And Guanajuato 2007

  • As for shopping, yes, the quality of the woolens is superb.

    La Pena De Bernal And Guanajuato 2007

  • Act stipulated that the dead were to be buried in English woolens rather than foreign textiles.

    1664, July 2001

  • Or were those long, baggy glad-rags a treasonous waste of woolens desperately needed for the war effort?

    Hep Cats, Street Fights Eric Felten 2011

  • Though they also have a small collection of silks and woolens, this place is most popular for having that rare piece of $3.98-a-yard microfiber fabric you just have to have, but didn't know you wanted or needed.

    Juanita MORE!: Juanita Gets Around Town Juanita MORE! 2012

  • He certainly prided himself in his virtuoso ability to render textures with paint, filling his works with shimmering silks, thick woolens, soft fur, gleaming metal and glass, humble earthenware—so he could also have been eager to show himself capable of tackling any type of picture.

    A Dutch Master Returns Karen Wilkin 2011

  • I also sew linens and woolens, which are better for the machine and the body.

    Fret Not 2009

  • He certainly prided himself in his virtuoso ability to render textures with paint, filling his works with shimmering silks, thick woolens, soft fur, gleaming metal and glass, humble earthenware—so he could also have been eager to show himself capable of tackling any type of picture.

    A Dutch Master Returns Karen Wilkin 2011

  • Luks called the painting Knitting, but it was soon renamed by the art world as Knitting for the Soldiers, with the assumption being that these ladies were knitting woolens for American boys overseas in World War I.

    Knitting in Highbridge Park Linda 2009

  • Luks called the painting Knitting, but it was soon renamed by the art world as Knitting for the Soldiers, with the assumption being that these ladies were knitting woolens for American boys overseas in World War I.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Linda 2009

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