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flannelled

flannelled adjective: wearing clothes made of flannel; especially wearing cricket whites.

Adjective

flannelled (not comparable)

  1. Wearing clothes made of flannel; especially wearing cricket whites.
    • A decided improvement is, however, to substitute the flannelled mackintosh, made by Messrs Walters and Co., for the blanket.1875 March, J. L. Milton, “On the Treatment of Secondary Syphilis”, in Edinburgh Medical Journal, volume 20, page 790
    • His impressions of headmasters were for the most part taken against a background of white-flannelled boys in playing-fields or grey-flannelled boys in walled court-yards.1918, Herbert George Wells, Joan and Peter: The Story of an Education, volume 2, page 260

Origin of flannelled

From flannel + -ed.

Words formed from flannelled

Phrases with flannelled

Questions about flannelled

What does flannelled mean?
Flannelled means wearing clothes made of flannel; especially wearing cricket whites.
What part of speech is flannelled?
Flannelled is an adjective.

Words near flannelled in the dictionary

  1. flannelflowers
  2. flannelgraph
  3. flannelgraphs
  4. flanneling
  5. flannell
  6. flannelled
  7. flannelled fool
  8. flannelled fools
  9. flannellike
  10. flannelling
  11. flannells

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