Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A material made of cotton and wool, as distinguished from linsey, which is made of linen and wool.
  • noun Same as linsey-woolsey, 1.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Linsey-woolsey.

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  • noun linsey-woolsey

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Examples

  • July 5th, 2006 at 8: 53 pm james risser says: woolsey is a former cia director, katy … he was on cnn earlier today talking about killing koreans, and it said ‘aspen colorado’ under his name …

    Think Progress » BREAKING: Former Enron CEO Ken Lay is dead. 2006

  • Sir told Mistress to give me an itchy woolsey sack dress to wear.

    Eliza’s Freedom Road Jerdine Nolen 2011

  • Sir told Mistress to give me an itchy woolsey sack dress to wear.

    Eliza’s Freedom Road Jerdine Nolen 2011

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

    Threads of feeling Kathryn Hughes 2010

  • Sir told Mistress to give me an itchy woolsey sack dress to wear.

    Eliza’s Freedom Road Jerdine Nolen 2011

  • Sir told Mistress to give me an itchy woolsey sack dress to wear.

    Eliza’s Freedom Road Jerdine Nolen 2011

  • *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 2009

  • All she had was a lindsey-woolsey blanket to cover her to keep warm.

    Warmth.... Gumbo Lily 2009

  • I have a snippet of one of the home-made lindsey-woolsey blankets she brought over--it is very thin.

    Warmth.... Gumbo Lily 2009

  • Linsey-woolsey is a plain woven fabric with linen or cotton warp and woolen weft used in early America for warmth.

    Winters Of Spring « Fairegarden 2009

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