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Meanings of linsey in English
Portuguese
flanela wincey Spanish
wincey 
Coarse woven fabric with a linen warp and a wool weft.
Usage of linsey in English
1
The coats of the men were home-made; the materials, jeans or linsey-woolsey.
2
I might lay hold of a linsey-woolsey cloak somewhere in the bog.
3
Your labor is too skilled by far to manufacture bagging and linsey-woolsey.
4
They made linsey for the woman and woolen cloth for de men.
5
He wore low shoes, buckskin breeches, linsey-woolsey shirt, and a coonskin cap.
6
Some of the passengers were dressed in jeans; others in linsey-woolsey dyed blue.
7
The women and children were dressed in simple garments of linsey.
8
Four young women were sewing the stiff linsey skirts worn in the Union.
9
He was clad in leather and linsey, and seemed ancient as the hills.
10
She spread the gray stuffs and brown linsey woolseys out scornfully.
11
But the Sphinx of womanhood may lie under linsey-woolsey as well as silk.
12
She drew up her short linsey-woolsey garments from the contaminations beneath her feet.
13
A short, stoop-shouldered white man, clad in faded linsey, appeared on the threshold.
14
We wore clothes called linsey that was wool and cotton mixed.
15
Some manufactures are carried on, including linsey-woolsey stuffs and edge tools.
16
Sally glanced down at her faded linsey-woolsey dress, soiled with soot.
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