a coarse sturdy fabric of wool and linen or cotton
Some had linsey-woolsey frocks, some gingham ones, and a few of the young ones had on calico — Mark Twain
archaic nonsense; flannel
But what linsey-woolsey hast thou to speak to us again? — Shakespeare
[Middle English lynsy wolsye, prob from Lindsey, a village in Suffolk, England where linen was produced + wolle wool + -sey rhyming suffix]