How To Use Flannel In A Sentence
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Still, the crêpe was even oilier - thick, flabby and barely hot, with the flavour of an onion-soaked flannel.
Times, Sunday Times
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Put a drop of peppermint oil on a flannel or tea towel.
The Sun
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Two flannels, draped across this, were mermaids, who swam and flopped and basked on islands of flesh.
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I could hear my little one screaming and then heard Ryan telling him to calm down and get mummy some flannels.
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Consider earth tones of all kinds, and different kinds of fabrics like cotton flannel, faux leather, warm chenille, and luxurious velvet.
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Cotton flannel and knit sheets offer you more softness without crispness, which is just what some people want.
HOME COMFORTS
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Traditionally, white flannels are worn when playing cricket.
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On my way out I grabbed my jacket, an insulated flannel overshirt.
Arcane Circle
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Today he was wearing a dark jacket with light flannels pressed to knife-edged sharpness.
DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
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Poured hot oil an 'laud'num into it, an' kept a hot brick rolled up in flannel against it, but didn't do no good.
The Miracle Man
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He wore pale flannels, a blue T-shirt with a button-up neck (quite similar to the one I was wearing) and a pair of flashy sunglasses.
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Do not share towels or flannels until the infection has cleared.
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Small wonder that, mounted on her fiery little mustang, untrammeled by her short gray riding-habit, free as the wind itself that blew through the folds of her flannel blouse, with her brown hair half-loosed beneath her slouched felt hat, she seemed to Dick a more beautiful and womanly figure than the stiff buckramed simulation of man's angularity and precision he had seen in the parks.
The Bell-Ringer of Angel's
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In years gone by, entire summers could pass with barely a glimpse of flannelled foolery on the back pages of the tabloids.
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OK, cut the flannel and tell me what you really want!
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Two hours and fifteen minutes into the game, upon the expiration of his seventh turn, Ted removed his glasses to wipe them slowly with the worn cotton of his flannel shirt.
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Now that she had jot down in her hard cover dark green diary with her name in cursive on the inside cover, Connie then decided to call it a night and accumulate the last five and a half hours of sleep under her fluffy flannel red and black linens.
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Get into your white flannels and pretty blue coat and put on your dinkey rah-rah, and follow me.
The Common Law
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Wipe off any excess make-up with a clean, moist cotton flannel.
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Of his white flannel suit with our bench-legged fyce!
Love-Songs of Childhood
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On the catwalk, shirts are oversized and flannel, while archetypal 90s label Versace is back doing couture for the first time in 15 years.
Stone Roses, Trainspotting and the grunge look: the 90s revival is here
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‘You're probably not going to sell much heavy wool or heavy flannel fabric in south Texas,’ he said.
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Stick to using a warm, clean flannel instead.
The Sun
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And the speculators financing these towers are very adept at flannelling the press and public with distracting trivia.
Times, Sunday Times
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Remove all dust from crevices and notches and then lightly rub the entire surface with a soft flannel cloth.
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Its surfaces are covered with a checkered, machine-loomed flannel, a subtle, polychromatic patchwork of nocturnal blue, heather and black that enlivens the sculpture's truncated planes and the quiet space it occupies.
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Although the foam-backed type is nonslip, I prefer a felt or flannel-backed padding.
HOME COMFORTS
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Examples of fabrics made by the twill weave include denim, Jean, gabardine, surah, sharkskin, some flannel fabrics and some tweeds.
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A set of matching cotton, flannel, or silk pants and shirts are good selections.
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He had changed back into Chinese dress today, and his lean frame was draped in a long, navy-blue flannel gown, giving him the air of a worthy descendant of some famous scholar.
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Here too in one of these small hamlets through which we passed Ruskin with a gang of his pupils in flannels started roadmaking, and for days and weeks were to be seen at their arduous task of digging and excavation, toiling and moiling with pick, spade, and barrow, while
From John O'Groats to Land's End
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J., supplier of flannel sheets, knowing that the firm manufactured knitted jersey crib sheets.
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It seems that he was never tortured by his homosexuality, and he had a curious fetish for grey flannels and corduroys.
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The ice-cold flannels and water that were there to greet us were very much appreciated.
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In my day you made do with a wet flannel of mustard and cress.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nice, comfortable loungewear includes pants (which can have either an elastic waistband or drawstring) and a matching sweatshirt, zipper shirt, or button down shirt, in comfortable fabrics such as cotton or flannel.
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Tweed was best for the outer garments, with flannel underneath.
Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain
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What for?" asked the voice, which Dickie now perceived came from a gentleman in rumpled hair and a very loose pink flannel suit, with cordy things on it such as soldiers have.
Harding's Luck
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Consider earth tones of all kinds, and different kinds of fabrics like cotton flannel, faux leather, warm chenille, and luxurious velvet.
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The principal manufactures are winceys, ginghams, woollen shirtings, flannels, linen thread, linen yarn, ropes, and fishing nets; and there are engineering and ironfounding works.
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I had started wearing flannel overshirts and even adopted some Newfoundland slang.
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They were a picturesque crew with their broad felt hats, their flannel shirts of various colors, overlaid with an enamel of dust and perspiration, baked by the Dakota sun, their bright silk handkerchiefs knotted round the neck, their woolly "shaps," their great silver spurs, their loosely hanging cartridge-belts, their ominous revolvers.
Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
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Huge "arctics" were strapped on his feet, from which seemed to spring, as from massive roots, his small, thin form, clad in a scanty _robe de chambre_ of cotton flannel, surmounted by a broad sou'wester, carefully covered by a voluminous white pocket handkerchief.
Adrift in the Ice-Fields
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Just take a look at what Browne's wearing today: slim gray flannel trousers that stop several inches above sockless ankles; an unironed white oxford-cloth button-down shirt; a skinny gray tie, and a cashmere cardigan with varsity stripes on the sleeve.
SUITS US IF IT SUITS HIM
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A man in his fifties, with a bulging chin, wearing a checkered flannel shirt, came out.
THE UNORTHODOX MURDER OF RABBI MOSS
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The group's leading products include natural silk, hemp, pure cotton, hemp cotton, bombasine, staple rayon, down-proof flannelette, mixed spinning cloth etc.
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Thirty years earlier, as a small boy in unflattering grey flannels, I stood and craned my neck to gawp at a model of the largest creature on earth, suspended from the ceiling of London's Natural History Museum.
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A perspirer (over sixty) who was keeping up his tennises panted he kne ho har twa to clect infamatios but a diffpair flannels climb wall and trespassing on doorbell.
Finnegans Wake
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In the early nineties, you couldn't turn around without spilling a microbrew on some goateed guy's flannel.
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It's tonnes of fun, dancing and drinking cheap beer to frenzied mandolin picking while one of the vets oversees, clad in grey flannels, blazer, beret, and a strip of medals.
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There were a hundred or so of Susquehanna raftsmen, grouped about in the ticket office, in every, conceivable position, and dressed in all kinds of inconceivable fashions, the favourite style appearing to be a slouched hat, rough flannel shirt of gorgeous pattern, and bedtick trousers, tucked into high boots.
A Run by Rail from Washington to St. Louis
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Waterford, on the other hand, is filled to the brim with overalls-wearing, Farmer's Almanac-wisdom-spouting oldsters and women who wear plaid flannel shirts with patches on the elbows.
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Milroy struggled a little with the time-honoured art of flannelling on live-to-camera while nothing much was happening: ‘Julian?’
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It seemed like they had so much in common: nasal voices, a taste for writing long, slow, acoustic dirges, and a closet full of flannel.
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Flannel wool is a soft, lightweight fabric with a nap on one or both sides.
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Dressed in overalls and a flannel shirt, he looked like a farmer.
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He watched him collect the flannels, wring them out and disappear from the cabin with the bundle of clothes.
A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
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And he did look good, in a pair of dark jeans and a soft green flannel shirt that brought out the green in his hazel eyes.
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“Would you have your fair greyhound, dear lady, grow up a tall and true Cotswold dog, that can pull down a stag of ten, or one of those smooth-skinned poppets which the Florence ladies lead about with a ring of bells round its neck, and a flannel farthingale over its loins?”
Westward Ho!
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There is first the enfranchisement of your steaming limbs from gaiter and shooting boot, buckskin and flannel; then the steeping of your sodden head in the pellucid depth, with bubaline snortings and expirations of satisfaction; then, as the first cold stream from the "tinpot" courses down your spine, what electric thrills start from a dozen ganglia and flush your whole nervous system with new life!
Behind the Bungalow
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He took off his flannel shirt, leaving only a ribbed, white undershirt.
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But, again, if you have chosen a cotton flannel as lining or cotton corduroy, then wash and dry that fabric as well.
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I had a terrible time finding stores that stocked a selection of good quality flannel sheets in California.
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If your idea of an appropriate outfit to wear to the grocery store is a flannel shirt, green sweatpants and a pink pair of these kicks, stay in the house.
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He wore a faded red flannel shirt.
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He was wearing a polo-neck sweater and a pair of creased grey flannels.
A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
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Strict hygiene is very important - sufferers should not share towels or flannels, and should wash hands frequently.
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It can knit fish scale fabric, drill and flannelette. These fabrics can make costume, sportswear and warm furnishings.
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So, before very long, the organdie butterflies and the flannel-trouser fifis gave in, succumbed, crushed once more beneath the stone-heavy passivity of resistance in the demonish peons.
The Plumed Serpent
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Coarse flannel is more irritating than any other material in ordinary use, and should therefore never be used when a sufficient amount of bodily heat can be maintained without it; as its use weakens, in the end, the perspiratory, and calorific, and depurating powers of the skin -- for the skin has all these powers -- and even, in some cases, brings on eruptive and other diseases.
The Young Woman's Guide
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The remainder of his costume consisted of a black cloth roundabout, threadbare and dirty; a pair of black casimere pantaloons, very tight about the legs and burst open in several places; and a pair of moccasins on his feet, adorned with beads and patches of red flannel.
The Land of Thor
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Citizen Oswald came to town wearing his dark tie, cashmere sweater and gray flannel suit.
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Two hours and fifteen minutes into the game, upon the expiration of his seventh turn, Ted removed his glasses to wipe them slowly with the worn cotton of his flannel shirt.
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gray flannel suit
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It is totally machine washable and dryer safe, it stays put, it's as soft as flannel and it comes in kicky prints like leopard and rose petal.
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However, on the other hand most people will know that dress sense demands: With grey flannels and blazer one wears black shoes and not brown.
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She is wearing flannel pajama pants and an old tank top.
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The author herself lives up to her surname, wearing a schoolgirlish grey flannel minidress over jeans, with pink ballet pumps.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's like talking to a wet flannel.
Times, Sunday Times
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He swathed his own bedroom in the stuff and used it for multiple clients' homes as well, earning him the title "the prince of gray flannel.
Highly Suitable Fabric
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Ascot Sunday, and an attentive Edmund - straw boater, white flannels.
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Boys usually wore grey worsted shorts and grey flannel shirts, with the senior boys sometimes permitted to wear long trousers, a monogrammed school blazer, white shirt, sometimes with a starched collar, and school tie.
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Granted, I still wear worn flannel jammies and drive a minivan, but now I remember to add the occasional shot of apricot nectar to my pulp-free juice.
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Flannel continued in use until the 1870s, when a rough cotton calico replaced it.
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Villagers wear everyday clothing fit for farming work: women wear flowery cotton or flannel dresses, and kerchiefs on their heads; men wear shirts and pants made of durable cloth, and caps or hats.
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I also had long hair, ripped jeans, and a penchant for flannelette shirts.
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Her tiny feet were wrapped in a woollen bundle, and rested on hot bricks, and her aching head was tied up in red flannel bandages that smelled of brandy; she had a mustard plaster on her chest, a cayenne pepper 'gargle' for her throat, and a cup of hot ginger tea stood at her elbow; her pretty nose was swollen out of shape, her bright eyes were red and inflamed, and little blisters had broken out all over those kissable lips; a very damp white handkerchief lay in her lap, and two great tears, that it had not yet wiped away, ran down her flushed cheeks.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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And in 1991 that meant flannel shirts and political correctness, rather than stars and stripes cycling shorts and songs challenging journalists to a punch-up.
Never mind Nevermind, 1991 was all about Guns N' Roses
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Our company is equipped with machines from Germany, which specialize in producing chamois fabric, silk flannelette, clinquant flannelette, and mesh cloth.
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Make haste with the old flannel.
The Sun
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You automatically look for the cheapest items - but then feel a tinge of embarrassment because you don't want to be seen as ‘the ones who bought the tea towels’, the flannels, or a single pillow case.
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In the winter she'd warm a flannelette sheet on the fire guard.
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A minute later, to Nancy's vast displeasure, Genevieve was ushering into the sitting room a sandy-haired man in full cowboy costume from broad-brimmed hat and flannel shirt to chaparejos and high-heeled boots.
The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch
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The clothes were immaculately cut, Mary's grey flannels, pinstripes and wool velours were really, really good clothes.
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The bedclothes fell away to reveal a soft, flannel nightgown, and she wondered hastily where her evening gown was.
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(Soundbite of song, "Tempted By the Fruit of Another") SQUEEZE (Musicians): (Singing) I bought a toothbrush, some toothpaste, a flannel for my face, pajamas, a hairbrush, new shoes and a case.
In Your Ear: Sheryl Crow
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As members arrived at our March meeting a generous collection of soap, toothbrushes, flannels, sponges, washing powder etc., gradually piled up.
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They wore jackets of Scotch tweed and flannel suits in winter, blue blazers and gabardines in summer; all of it they'd had tailored by New Haven tailors like Chipp or Langrock's.
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The boxes also contain everyday items taken for granted in much of the world, things like toothpaste, toothbrush, flannels, soap, gloves and scarves.
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However, unlike most stockmen he preferred a white shirt and white moleskins to grey flannel and grey twill; somewhat of a dandy, she decided, amused.
The Thorn Birds
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‘At that Lord's Test in 1950 we were told to change into our clean flannels as we were to be presented to the King,’ he said.
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Stick to using a warm, clean flannel instead.
The Sun
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Several young men in sports jackets and flannels and trilby hats had gathered around the brilliantly lit window of a requisitioned shop.
TANK OF SERPENTS
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Fabrics that will keep you warm for the season include: tweed, denim, wool flannel, knits, and crepe.
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Key pieces include dark velvet wrap jackets and flannel trousers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead of a grey flannel suit he now wears a rather improbable pair of designer jeans and a stiffly pressed polo shirt.
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From the drawers she pulled a soft flannel nightgown, with short, round, puffy sleeves and lace at the collars and hem.
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The Dressman is suitable for shirts made from silk, viscose, cotton, linen, flannel and all other non-stretch materials.
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He was wearing a brown apron with a white button up flannel shirt that had the sleeves rolled up and navy blue trousers.
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Also keep a cold, damp flannel by your bed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Among the items most appreciated are cuddly toys, toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, flannels, notepads, colouring books, pencils, pens, crayons, hats, caps, gloves and scarves.
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He always wore a strange mixture of civilized and savage clothes – fringed buckskin "chaps," beaded moccasins, a blue flannel shirt, a scarlet silk handkerchief knotted around his throat, a wide-brimmed cowboy hat with a rattlesnake skin as a
The Shagganappi
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Eventually they arrived, the new vehicle of choice for whiskered hippie types who explored the trails in jeans and flannel shirts way before grunge became popular.
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Forget the metrosexuals who worry about hair gel, designer jeans and getting in touch with their sensitive side - Cam is about promoting sport, flannelette, beer, camping, barbecues and good old-fashioned values.
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Both had short hair and were wearing grey flannels and short-sleeved white shirts, open at the neck.
THE DEVIL'S DOOR
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-- Take a yard of flannel, fold it in three widths, then dip it in very hot water, wring it out tolerably dry, and apply it evenly and neatly round and round the bowels; over this, and to keep it in its place, and to keep in the moisture, put on a _dry_ flannel bandage, four yards long and four inches wide.
Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children
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Valerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times From left: CÉLINE, an asymmetrical wool coat over a turtleneck and slim two-tone trousers; YOHJI YAMAMOTO, an asymmetrical dress in wool flannel, the back sheer to the waist; HAIDER ACKERMANN, a cutaway satin jacket and extra- wide belt over tapered satin pants.
NYT > Home Page
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The saddler gave it at so low a price that we perceived he must have tacitly abated something from the visual demand, and when we did not try to beat him down, his wife went again into that inner room and came out with an iron-holder of scarlet flannel backed with canvas, and fringed with magenta, and richly inwrought with a Moorish design, in white, yellow, green, and purple.
Familiar Spanish Travels
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From you can abutment your aggregation and bless all that football dreplica jerseys, bequest jerseys nce or or accurate accurate NFL Jerseys, to bodice sweatshirts, catchbasin tops, flannel pajamas, hat and beanies
Think Progress » KKK has ‘reversed declining membership’ in recent years.
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When we go out I take a damp flannel in a plastic bag.
The Sun
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Seated on a green-and-white striped chair he watched a _revue_, of which from start to finish he understood but one word -- 'out', to wit -- absorbed in the doings of a red-moustached gentleman in blue who wrangled in rapid French with a black-moustached gentleman in yellow, while a snow-white _commere_ and a _compere_ in a mauve flannel suit looked on at the brawl.
The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
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Thomson was a city boy who had a thing for plaid flannel shirts, tuques, back bacon and fish frying in a skillet as well as booze from the bottle and long treks into the Great White North.
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The Cullercoats fishwife, with her cheerful weather-bronzed face, her short jacket and ample skirts of blue flannel, and her heavily laden "creel" of fish is not only appreciated by the brotherhood of brush and pencil, but is one of the notable sights of the district.
Northumberland Yesterday and To-day
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She fussed over me with hot drinks and cold flannels.
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Wearing his scarlet flannel pad, he rolled majestically down the chute to the quay and everybody laughed and cheered.
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After this, climbing up the bobstay, he regained the deck, and proceeded to dry his hairy frame on an ancient flannel shirt.
Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers
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And while you're there, have a look at the flannel check shirts.
Times, Sunday Times
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I love you more than all the flannelette and calico, candlewick, dimity, crash and merino, tussore, cretonne, crepon, muslin, poplin, ticking and twill in the whole Cloth Hall of the world.
Languagehat.com: W.G. SEBALD.
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A bitter cold wind cut right through his leather jacket and flannel lined jeans, but he didn't notice it at all.
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I suggest using cotton flannel, fleece, or another thick fabric.
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‘They should go back to where they belong,’ says one of the flanneled fools.
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'crooned' over it, sang to it, rolled it in a morsel of flannel, and put it away in her bosom.
Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure
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His interrogators could see that voting reform for councils is going to be necessary to keep his coalition together, but on such an important matter, he flannelled, failing to find a clear position.
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All the designs come in materials ranging from camel hair, grain lambskin, silk crepe, silk faille and flannel to wool and cashmere.
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The trenches, hats and flannel suits are a tribute to Humphrey Bogart.
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So what motivated her to drop from a healthy 130 pounds to being so thin that today she wears a pair of flannel pants under her size one jeans just to hold them up?
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Out in the playground during break boys dash around kicking a ball, their white shirts hanging out of their grey flannel trousers.
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I love flannel, it reminds me of being small and having flannelette sheets on the bed in winter.
Archive 2009-01-01
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At the moment he was dressed in a pair of old slippers and a worn dressing gown, thrown over a set of striped flannel pyjamas.
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I unconsciously syllogized thus: 'All red flannel has threads of warp and woof and a rough texture, caused by the coarse fibres of wool curling up stiffly; this is a piece of red flannel; hence this will be found to have these properties.'
Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8
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This from deep in the flannel and denim rags she had scored from Dollar a Pound, a clothes emporium with a huge scales in the middle that shares space with The Garment District with stuff was a tad pricier, meaning jeans and men's suit coats might set you back 4 or 5 bucks.
EXIT ONLY by TERRY MAROTTA
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He apologised for the situation and then flannelled on about ramping up production, being victims of their own success, and how they could manage the problem.
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If he expects people ultimately to respect his judgment, he had better stop trying to flannel at every opportunity.
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Inside the ministry building I handed my documents to a chubby official in a flannel shirt.
Times, Sunday Times
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I asked him if he wanted iodine on it and he spat the flannel out and screamed no.
A DARKENING STAIN
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Get down to Uniqlo and buy one of these splendid print or check flannel shirts, and wear with boyfriend jeans and heels or brogues.
Times, Sunday Times
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Funny how inside every flannel wearing westie, there is a world champion drag racer raring to get out.
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I took pieces of white flannel and made a casing and then put the casing onto the doweling.
Sheer cards, scrapbuster blocks
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Really I'm not saying this to flatter or flannel - this is absolutely unique.
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Marianne finds this attention mortifying, as she thinks the Colonel, who is thirty-five and talks of flannel waistcoats, is too old to be a lover.
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These soldiers of the outermost outpost were in the regulation-uniform, -- red-flannel shirts, impurpled by wetting, big boots, and old felt-hats.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862
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They wore jackets of Scotch tweed and flannel suits in winter, blue blazers and gabardines in summer; all of it they'd had tailored by New Haven tailors like Chipp or Langrock's.
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Cover a flat piece of hardboard with a single layer of flannelette of similar material.
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Rifles should be regularly cleaned by pulling a piece of flannelette through.
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Can you imagine dying for a bit of flannelette sheet?
Archive 2009-01-01
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Stay away from wearing your khaki chinos during the winter months; you're better off with wool or flannel pants.
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The clothes were immaculately cut, Mary's grey flannels, pinstripes and wool velours were really, really good clothes.
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He was shown something the size of a face flannel.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of course the flannels have been replaced by more casual wear but this colonial legacy, cricket, like the English language, is here to stay.
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Many parents prefer the cotton or flannel fabric because they are less expensive than silk sheets and are easier to clean.
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In concession to the October morning chill, she slipped a worn flannel shirt on over the tee.
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They wore old flannel shirts, and sweatshirts that hung over ripped jeans.
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If that were so, it would be a shocking injustice to a flannelled gentleman who, by all accounts, played his cricket with immeasurable grace and infinite style.
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That means attempts to nab the downright nasty might just nail a few well-heeled, flannel-shirted shoppers in the process.
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I stretched out, deliciously warm beneath a down comforter and flannel sheets, with my head propped on his chest.
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Hang on a minute, this is all a load of old flannel.
The Sun
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Peter Joyce was perfectly content to wear a "bawneen" of homemade flannel and a pair of ragged trousers.
Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918
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Texture is all, with fabrics ranging from serviceable flannel and tweeds to luxurious guipure and marocain crepe.
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Certain loosely woven fabrics, such as lightweight flannel and toweling, aren't firm enough to be in the stable category.
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I am rather fond of the indigent look, myself, and am the proud owner of a modest collection of plaid flannel shirts.
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The other guy wears black velour jackets comboed with unironed flannelette pyjama shirts and loud ties.
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There's no word on when the Brits began to make their pj's out of tartan flannelette, but you can be sure that the Victorians will have approved of the entirely sexless, shapeless garments that left much to the imagination.
What Not to Wear in Bed
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Once, a new set of soft flannel sheets turned up on our front porch.
Christianity Today
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Instead of a grey flannel suit he now wears a rather improbable pair of designer jeans and a stiffly pressed polo shirt.
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He was wearing a polo-neck sweater and a pair of creased grey flannels.
A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
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She was arrayed in a blue-dotted, white flannel dress, with a soft roll collar and cuffs , and the costume was completed by white stockings and shoes.
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I towelled myself dry and slipped into my ratty old flannel pyjamas.
A RODENT OF DOUBT
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But for me a flannel nightgown and a blanket is a less expensive way of taking care of that problem here.
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We children forgot a lot of the disagreeableness when the wagon was unloaded and we saw the good things to eat and the yards and yards of calico and outing flannel that Mother had bought to make us new clothes…
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Beat’s outer trappings — black turtlenecks, cigarette pants, neckerchiefs, berets — is indebted less to Jack Kerouac and his wayward cohort, who slouched about in frayed flannel shirts, than to stylized interpretations in movies like “Funny Face” or the less well-known “Subterraneans,’’ a 1960 film based on a Kerouac novel about the kinky denizens of North Beach in San Francisco.
August 2006
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The man offered Bill a pair of faded blue overalls and a much-bepatched shirt of blue flannel, and when Jeanne emerged, clad in the best dress of her hostess, Bill took his turn in the dressing-room.
The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest
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Use a damp flannel to clean the skin.
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Yesterday morning, young boys wearing school uniforms of grey flannels and white shirts snatched handbags off a number of women on their way to the day hospital.
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His mother, in her flannel nightgown, held the newborn Ashley, whose agonized screams filled the dining room.
ROUGH JUSTICE
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If you don't yet have a turtleneck, wool flannel pants, dark jeans, and the hottest trend of the season, what are you waiting for?
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The first lot missed my ear entirely and dripped down my neck, necessitating a rapid dash to the bathroom for a flannel and towel.
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I was in knickerbockers and khaki shirt; Mifflin in greasy gray flannels and subfusc Norfolk.
Shandygaff
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A cold flannel on the forehead might make you feel more comfortable.
Coming Off Tranquillizers and Sleeping Pills
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For making blue cotton shirts, or "hickories" as they are called, a woman receives six cents apiece, and must furnish her own thread; for making linen coats she receives from fifteen to twenty cents apiece; for men's heavy overalls she gets sixty-two cents a dozen; for flannel shirts one dollar a dozen.
Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City
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Merely introducing colour would have been radical in a world populated by men who wore grey flannels and blazers.
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My dress consisted of a scarlet flannel shirt, and a pair of _etoffe du pays_ trousers, which were fastened round my waist by a leathern bolt, from which depended a small hunting-knife; a foraging cap and deer-skin moccasins completed my costume.
Hudson Bay
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Rollins described ‘the most esteemed’ quilts of her childhood as being made of ‘glossy, dark flannel, lined with yellow, with a slight wadding of carded wool.’
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Add a few flannelled fools chasing a cricket ball, children running and squealing, grandmas snoozing, sausages sizzling, and it's the perfect picture of a Saturday afternoon at a local Aussie oval.
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(As if there was any doubt.) "Quite honestly I am a J. Crewaholic," says Joyce Randazzo, a lawyer based in Lake Success, N.Y. Randazzo, speaking from her office outfitted in head to toe Crew including grey flannel pinstripe pants, a white long-sleeved T-shirt and a black V-neck cardigan, has been shopping at J. Crew for 15 years.
The Cult Of J.Crew
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They were fairly large specimens, dressed for the evening in the beaver hats and red flannel shirts favored by rough sporting men.
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Flannels and baizes are the principal woollen articles made in and near Halifax, together with cloth for the use of the army.
Rides on Railways
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Russell watched expectantly while I changed into the clothes I had placed in the side pocket of the pack: thick jeans, a thermal undershirt, the flannel overshirt with the rip in the elbow that Kira had mended for me twice already.
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So go crazy this fall because flannels, corduroys and tweeds are making a huge comeback.
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Certain loosely woven fabrics, such as lightweight flannel and toweling, aren't firm enough to be in the stable category.
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The flannel-wearing old-time slacker is at it again, and still doing a damn fine job of pumping out some substantial material.
