woolsey
woolsey noun: a material made of cotton and wool.
Noun
woolsey (uncountable)
- A material made of cotton and wool.
- Mickey was the best hurler in the barony, no mean performer on the violin, could dance the national bolero of "Tatter Jack Walsh" in a way that charmed more than one soft heart beneath a red woolsey bodice, and had, withal, the peculiar free-and-easy devil-may-care kind of off-hand Irish way that...1841, Charles Lever, Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 (of 2)
- "But, please, sir, won't you let our Tommy out first?" cried Jerry, as the strong woman lapped up the two youngest in her woolsey apron and ran off with them.1880, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, Mary Anerley. A Yorkshire Tale. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, […], →OCLC
Proper noun capitalized: Woolsey
Woolsey (plural Woolseys)
Forms of woolsey
| plural | Woolseys |
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Origin of woolsey
Variant of Wolsey.
Words formed from woolsey
Questions about woolsey
- What does woolsey mean?
- Woolsey means a material made of cotton and wool.
- What part of speech is woolsey?
- Woolsey can be a noun or a proper noun.
Words near woolsey in the dictionary
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