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lamb's-wool|ˈlæmzwʊl|
1. The wool of lambs; soft fine wool used for hosiery and other clothing; clothing-material made of this wool.
1552Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI, c. 6 §1 Some by myngelinge Fell Wooll and Lambes Wool..withe Fleese Wooll. 1631Star Chamb. Cases (Camden) 13 They changed the markes of the sheepe, and deteyned the lambes wooll, and when it was demanded it was denyed as if it were upon the sheepes backes. 1830Miss Mitford Village Ser. iv. (1863) 163 The poor little creatures, shivering tho' wrapt in lamb's-wool and swan's-down. 1854Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims, Resources Wks. (Bohn) III. 199 The invalid sits shivering in lambs-wool and furs.
fig.1869Trollope He knew iv. (1878) 19 Wrapping himself up for life in the scanty lambswool of a fellowship.
b. attrib.
1836E. Howard R. Reefer xxiii, White lamb's-wool stockings. 1837J. F. Palmer Devonsh. Gloss., Lambs-wool-sky, a collection of white orbicular masses of cloud (cirrostratus). 1886Fortn. Rev. Feb. 179 The sponges are sorted..into glove, reef, lamb's wool, grass, &c.
2. A drink consisting of hot ale mixed with the pulp of roasted apples, and sugared and spiced.
1592G. Harvey Pierce's Super. 33 Drinking a Cupp of Lammeswool. 1595Peele Old Wives T. Wks. (Rtldg.) 446/1 Lay a crab in the fire to roast for lamb's-wool. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. v. iii. i. (1651) 399, I finde those that commend use of Apples in Splenatick and this kinde of Melancholy (Lambswooll some call it). 1666Pepys Diary 9 Nov., We to cards till two in the morning, and drinking lamb's-wool. 1725Sloane Jamaica II. 147 They roast a ripe plantain and mix it with a pint and half of water, and it is like Lamb's Wool. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. xi, The lamb's wool, even in the opinion of my wife, who was a connoisseur, was excellent. 1839Mrs. Palmer Devon. Dial. iv. 59 ‘There is two special stubberd trees, vor making squab pies and lambs wool.’ |