woolleny

woolleny adjective: resembling wool.

Adjective

woolleny (comparative more woolleny, superlative most woolleny)

(rare) Resembling wool.
- I have a veil, a beautiful—⁠—have, did I say? Alas! Troy was. But I must not anticipate—⁠—a beautiful veil of brown tissue, none of your woolleny, gruff fabrics, fit only for penance, but a silken, gossamery cloud, soft as a baby’s cheek. Yet everybody fleers at it.1863, Gail Hamilton [pseudonym; Mary Abigail Dodge], chapter I, in Gala-Days, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, page 41
- Dascome brought his car to a stop just this side of the glow, on a bit of level beside the road which, in that woolleny fog, Karesia would never have discovered, but which either his keener eye or his instinct discovered for him.1924, Elizabeth Dejeans [pseudonym; Frances Elizabeth Janes Budgett], chapter XVII, in The Double House, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 94

From devotions he went to tea and cold “woolleny” bread in Commons.1930, George D[unlap] Lyman, “Harvard”, in John Marsh, Pioneer: The Life Story of a Trail-blazer on Six Frontiers, New York, N.Y.: Charles...
They were all in apple-pie order, laid away in oil, in a kind of woolleny serge, and tin boxes over all.1935, John Masefield, Victorious Troy or The Hurrying Angel, London; Toronto, Ont.: William Heinemann Ltd, page 287:

comparative	more woolleny
superlative	most woolleny

From woollen + -y.

What does woolleny mean?: Woolleny means resembling wool.
How do you use woolleny in a sentence?: From devotions he went to tea and cold “woolleny” bread in Commons.
What part of speech is woolleny?: Woolleny is an adjective.

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