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Linsey-woolsey   /lˈɪnziwˈʊlzi/   Listen
Linsey-woolsey

noun
1.
A rough fabric of linen warp and wool or cotton woof.





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"Linsey-woolsey" Quotes from Famous Books



... pioneer wore moccasins of buckskin, and buckskin leggins or trousers; his coat was a hunting shirt belted at the waist and fringed where it fell to his knees. It was of homespun, a mixture of wool and flax called linsey-woolsey, and out of this the dresses of his wife and daughters were made; the wool was shorn from the sheep, which were so scarce that they were never killed for their flesh, except by the wolves, which were very ...
— Stories Of Ohio - 1897 • William Dean Howells
... stuff gown, discoloured by various stains, and intended, it would seem, from the remnants of rusty crape with which it was here and there tricked out, to represent the garb of widowhood, and held in her arms a sleeping infant, swathed in the folds of a linsey-woolsey shawl. ...
— Jack Sheppard - A Romance • William Harrison Ainsworth


Words linked to "Linsey-woolsey" :   material, textile, fabric, cloth


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