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Linsey-woolsey

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Noun

1. linsey-woolsey

a rough fabric of linen warp and wool or cotton woof

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Linsey-woolsey

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noun
1. 
a thin rough fabric of linen warp and coarse wool or cotton filling
2. 
a strange nonsensical mixture or confusion

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Linsey-woolsey

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nounWord forms: plural ˈlinsey-ˈwoolseys
1. 
a coarse cloth made of linen and wool or cotton and wool
: also ˈlinsey
2.  Obsolete
an incongruous mixture; jumble

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Linsey-woolsey

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n. pl. lin·sey-wool·seys
A coarse, woven fabric of wool and cotton or of wool and linen.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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