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woollen

woollen is the alternative spelling of woolen.

Meaning of woolen

Adjective

woolen (not comparable)

  1. (US) Made of wool.
    • In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of...1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter IV, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The...
  2. (US) Of or relating to wool or woolen cloths.
    • woolen manufactures

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Forms of woollen

pluralwoollens

Questions about woollen

What is woollen the alternative spelling of?
Woollen is the alternative spelling of woolen.

Words near woollen in the dictionary

  1. Woollahra
  2. Woollard
  3. Woollards
  4. Woollcombe
  5. Woollcott
  6. woollen
  7. woollenet
  8. woollenets
  9. woollenette
  10. woollenly
  11. woollens

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