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Woolen

Woolen \Wool"en\, n. [Written also woollen.] Cloth made of wool; woollen goods.

Woolen

Woolen \Wool"en\, a. [OE. wollen; cf. AS. wyllen. See Wool.]

  1. Made of wool; consisting of wool; as, woolen goods.

  2. Of or pertaining to wool or woolen cloths; as, woolen manufactures; a woolen mill; a woolen draper.

    Woolen scribbler, a machine for combing or preparing wool in thin, downy, translucent layers.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
woolen

also woollen (chiefly British English), Old English wullen, wyllen "made of wool," from wool + -en (2). Related: Woolens; woollens.

Wiktionary
woolen

a. 1 (context US English) Made of wool. 2 (context US English) Of or relating to wool or woolen cloths. n. An item of clothing made from wool

WordNet
woolen
  1. adj. of or related to or made of wool; "a woolen sweater" [syn: woollen]

  2. n. a fabric made from the hair of sheep [syn: wool, woollen]

Wikipedia
Woolen

Woolen ( American English) or woollen ( Commonwealth English) is a type of yarn made from carded wool. Woolen yarn is soft, light, stretchy, and full of air. It is thus a good insulator, and makes a good knitting yarn. Woolen yarn is in contrast to worsted yarn, in which the fibers are combed to lie parallel rather than carded, producing a hard, strong yarn.

Usage examples of "woolen".

She was wrapped in a woolen arisaid, but even that was fastened by a handsome cairngorm brooch.

She raised a brow at his skill, but he just continued to grin at her as he pushed her arisaid off her shoulders, then reached for her gown, removing it easily and leaving her in her woolen hose, her chemise and her shoes.

Madame Bellini had been keeping a lacy black woolen stole wound around her head and across her face like a yashmak.

Eugenio has submitted all the requisite papers for a new passport and local visa, has bought him two new silk suits and a handsome woolen Tyrolean duffle coat with a felt borsalino to match, as well as a pair of green knee-high rubber boots to splash about in, has provided him with liniments, medicines, toiletries, and even a wonderful old-fashioned cotton sleeping cap, and has replaced the cracked waterlogged shoes he came here in with three new pairs, custom made from the softest hand-tooled Venetian leather, remarking as he threw out the old ones that they reminded him of those strange stiff shoes made out of tree bark that he used to wear to school.

His outer gauntlets were too thick to unfasten the strap catches, so he took them off, trying not to wince as the arctic air bit straight through the woolen inner gloves.

The Cimmerian, who wore a wolfskin jacket over baggy woolen breeks, howled incomprehensible, oddly musical curses at him.

Kentucky accents or a Gaelic lift to their voices sweated side by side with black dockhands unloading cotton and woolen goods, raw cotton, boxes of coffee, liquor, spices from the half dozen steamboats currently in port.

They were swathed in woolens and furs, mittens and earmuffs, knitted caps.

Tall and fierce, all of them, in many-colored woolens and the fine, ornate goldwork on which they pride themselves.

Silwyth had pointedly left in his cell for him, the dalmatic, the long-skirted tunic known as the houppelande, then much in fashion, the woolen hose and cloak and jeweled girdle and leather slippers.

He drew his justicoat over his shoulders, pulling his heavily lined woolen great coat over this.

He slipped his hand into the pocket of his justicoat, letting the round stone fall within the lined, woolen folds.

With only a few mutters, she let Naris complete the job, although little remained beyond stepping into her heavy woolen skirt.

Drina, too, had a gift for him: a new overshirt, woolen and heavy enough for the cold he and Baden would encounter crossing the mountains.

The rider was an old woman dressed in a velvet housecoat the color of oxblood, a woolen throw draped across her lap for extra warmth.