Usually means: Coarse blend of wool and linen.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. linsey-woolsey: Merriam-Webster
  2. linsey-woolsey: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. linsey-woolsey: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. linsey-woolsey, linsey-woolsey: Collins English Dictionary
  5. linsey-woolsey: Vocabulary.com
  6. linsey-woolsey: Wordnik
  7. linsey-woolsey: Wiktionary
  8. linsey-woolsey: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. linsey-woolsey: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. linsey-woolsey: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Linsey-woolsey, linsey-woolsey: Dictionary.com
  12. linsey-woolsey: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Linsey-woolsey: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Linsey-woolsey: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. linsey-woolsey: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. linsey-woolsey: Rhymezone
  17. Linsey-woolsey: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. linsey-woolsey: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. linsey-woolsey: FreeDictionary.org
  20. linsey-woolsey: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. linsey-woolsey: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. linsey-woolsey: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. Linsey-woolsey: World Wide Words

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. LINSEY-WOOLSEY: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (linsey-woolsey)

▸ noun:  A fabric made of both linen and wool.
▸ noun:  (figurative, archaic) Worthless material; nonsense; gibberish.
▸ adjective:  Mean; shoddy; of unsuitable composition.

Similar:
woolsey, woolenet, linenette, linen, woolenette, woollenette, woollenet, woollens, woolulose, lambswool, more...

Opposite:
pure, unmixed, unadulterated, unalloyed
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Similar:
woolsey, woolenet, linenette, linen, woolenette, woollenette, woollenet, woollens, woolulose, lambswool, more...

Opposite:
pure, unmixed, unadulterated, unalloyed



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