feltry

Noun

felt (countable and uncountable, plural felts)

1. A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.
   • It were a delicate stratagem to shoe
     A troop of horse with felt.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
2. A hat made of felt.
3. A felt-tip pen.
   • You'll notice that all the illustrations are done in different media: some with pencil crayons, some with felts, some with paint, some with chalk pastels.1989, Anne D. Forester, Margaret Reinhard, The Learners' Way, page 116
4. (obsolete) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
   • To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose.1707, John Mortimer, The whole art of husbandry

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