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balbriggan

[ US /bæɫˈbɹɪɡən/ ]
[ UK /bˈælbɹɪɡən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a cotton knit fabric used for underwear

How To Use balbriggan In A Sentence

  • Balbriggan eventually came to refer to the underwear made from the cloth.
  • Lavatory, to turn a Roman and leave the chayr and gout in his bare balbriggans, the sweep, and buy the usual jar of porter at the Morgue and Cruses and set it down before the wife with her fireman’s halmet on her, bidding her mine the hoose, the strum-pet, while him and his lagenloves were rampaging the roads in all their paroply under the noses of the Heliopolitan constabu-lary? Finnegans Wake
  • Ye see, "says he, shaking his pawky old head," the day ye find a priest sittin 'in the court at Trinity is a day ye'll be able to skate over Dublin Bay from Bray to Balbriggan - an' as for seein 'St Stephen's Green from the court, well, I doubt if even ould Faylen could see that far from heaven, where he's been this five-and-thirty years, God rest his soul. THE NUMBERS
  • Contract cleaners use white terry, balbriggan and sheets.
  • Allington, inquiries were made for him, the people wondering if he intended remaining in Wales the remainder of his life, or would he appear in their midst again some day, with his balbriggans and Irish linens. Bessie's Fortune A Novel
  • Balbriggan is a knitted cotton fabric named after the Irish town.
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