Coarse woven fabric with a linen warp and a wool weft.
1The coats of the men were home-made; the materials, jeans or linsey-woolsey.
2I might lay hold of a linsey-woolsey cloak somewhere in the bog.
3Your labor is too skilled by far to manufacture bagging and linsey-woolsey.
4He wore low shoes, buckskin breeches, linsey-woolsey shirt, and a coonskin cap.
5Some of the passengers were dressed in jeans; others in linsey-woolsey dyed blue.
6But the Sphinx of womanhood may lie under linsey-woolsey as well as silk.
7She drew up her short linsey-woolsey garments from the contaminations beneath her feet.
8Some manufactures are carried on, including linsey-woolsey stuffs and edge tools.
9Sally glanced down at her faded linsey-woolsey dress, soiled with soot.
10The clothing of the people was mainly of linsey-woolsey, home-made.
11While we revel in broadcloth, let us not forget what we owe to linsey-woolsey.
12Polly Ann sat by the little window of the cabin, spinning the flax into linsey-woolsey.
13His wife wore a calico dress for company, while the neighbor wives wore homespun linsey-woolsey.
14She wore a woollen flowered jacket under a black shawl, and a skirt of linsey-woolsey.
15The beaux and belles, in linsey-woolsey and buckskins, were assembled from the country around and about.
16Home-made linen and clothing of linsey-woolsey were used in the settlements by high and low alike.
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