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单词 linsey-woolsey
释义

linsey-woolsey/ˌlinzi ʹwoolzi/ noun

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]
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