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Definition of Linsey-woolsey
1. Noun. A rough fabric of linen warp and wool or cotton woof.
Definition of Linsey-woolsey
1. Noun. a fabric made of both linen and wool. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Linsey-woolsey
Literary usage of Linsey-woolsey
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Centennial History of Missouri: (the Center State) One Hundred Years in the by Walter Barlow Stevens (1921)
"... and Food at the Dawn of Statehood—The Popular Linsey Woolsey—Happy Days for
Cabin Brides—When Love Laughed at Language Differences—Rapid Courtships— The ..."
2. How to Make Rugs by Candace Wheeler (1902)
"LINSEY WOOLSEY. IT has often been given as a reason for the discontinuance of
home weaving, that no product of the hand loom can be as exact or as cheap as ..."
3. A Selection from the Letters of the Late Sarah Grubb (formerly Sarah Lynes) by Sarah Grubb (1848)
"... a mixture as surely disapproved in the sight of the Great Head of the Church,
as ever the forbidden linsey-woolsey garment was of old; and which must ..."
4. Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Falconer by John Aikin (1843)
"Is it thus you praise A linsey-woolsey song, framed with such ease, Such vacancy
of thought, that every line Might tempt e'en Vaughan to whisper, ..."
5. The Irish Industrial Exhibition of 1853: A Detailed Catalogue of Its by John Sproule (1854)
"Frieze, tweed,flannel,drugget, linsey woolsey, calico, check, towelling;
men's,women's, and children's apparel, made up ; specimens of embroidery, Berlin, ..."
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