How To Use Linsey-woolsey In A Sentence
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It has a 21 jean weave where the wool fibers show more on the outside and the cotton shows more on the inside where a plain weave is often described as linsey-woolsey.
Inventory of Robert Carter's Estate, November [1733]
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A fabric called linsey-woolsey was most frequently in use and made the most substantial and warmest clothing.
Daniel Boone The Pioneer of Kentucky
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*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
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Hobbling on a broomstick, with, no doubt, the same weird, wizened face as now, an innate sense of the fitness of things must have suggested the kerchief tied around her big head, and the burlaps rag of an apron in front of her linsey-woolsey rag of a gown, and the bit of broken pipe-stem in the corner of her mouth, where the pipe should have been, and where it was in after years.
Balcony Stories
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The women wore gowns of very coarse homespun and home-woven cloth, composed of linen and wool, and called linsey-woolsey, very coarse shoes, and sometimes with buckskin gloves of their own manufacture.
David Crockett
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He speaks wistfully of the hard-wearing fabrics of yesteryear - linsey-woolsey and gabardine.
Times, Sunday Times
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Neither did they establish their claims to gentility at the expense of their tailors, for as yet those offenders against the pockets of society and the tranquility of all aspiring young gentlemen were unknown in New Amsterdam; every good housewife made the clothes of her husband and family, and even the goede vrouw of Van Twiller himself thought it no disparagement to cut out her husband's linsey-woolsey galligaskins.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
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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 fond of mutton, but had no use for wool.
Stories Of Ohio
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“From her elegant silk lingerie into horrible itchy blue coarse stuff called linsey-woolsey.”
Archive 2004-07-01
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He speaks wistfully of the hard-wearing fabrics of yesteryear - linsey-woolsey and gabardine.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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It was of homespun, a mixture of wool and flax called linsey-woolsey, 15 and out of this the dresses of his wife and daughters were made.
Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year
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By “Indian dress” he meant costume common to whites as well as Indians in the west: moccasins, leggings, breechclout, and a hunting shirt, a knee-length smock of linen, wool, or linsey-woolsey, drab and durable.
George Washington’s First War
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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
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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
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With all this she was also very kind to a married sister, who had a large family; but she wore no flowers, flounces, nor finery; her six gowns were of a stuff the Scotch call linsey-woolsey; and so in sixteen years 'services she had amassed what
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 437 Volume 17, New Series, May 15, 1852
