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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024lin•sey-wool•sey (lin′zē wŏŏl′zē),USA pronunciation n., pl. -seys. - Textilesa coarse fabric woven from linen warp, or sometimes cotton, and coarse wool filling.
- Clothinga garment made from this.
- [Archaic.]any mixture that is incongruous or of poor quality;
jumble:That last speech was a linsey-woolsey of stale platitudes.Also called linsey.
- Old French saie; akin to Medieval Latin sagia kind of weave, Latin sagum cloak) + wol wool + -sye, variant of say
- 1425–75; late Middle English lynsy wolsye literally, linen cloth, wool cloth, equivalent. to lyn (Old English līn; see linen) + -sy, variant of say cloth (
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: linsey-woolsey /ˈlɪnzɪˈwʊlzɪ/ n - a thin rough fabric of linen warp and coarse wool or cotton filling
- a strange nonsensical mixture or confusion
Etymology: 15th Century: probably from Lindsey, Suffolk village where the fabric was first made + wool (with rhyming suffix -sey) |