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Answer for the clue "Soft woollen fabric ", 7 letters:
flannel

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"warm, loosely woven woolen stuff," c.1300, flaunneol , probably related to Middle English flanen "sackcloth" (c.1400); by Skeat and others traced to Welsh gwlanen "woolen cloth," from gwlan "wool," from Celtic *wlana , from PIE *wele- (1) "wool" (see wool ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flannel \Flan"nel\ (fl[a^]n"n[e^]l), n. [F. flanelle, cf. OF. flaine a pillowcase, a mattress (?); fr. W. gwlanen flannel, fr. gwlan wool; prob. akin to E. wool. Cf. Wool .] A soft, nappy, woolen cloth, of loose texture. --Shak. a cotton fabric with a thick ...

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Usage examples of flannel.

In less time than it once took her heart to beat, Allison had the man by the front of his ragged, sweat-brittle flannel shirt and three inches off the ground.

Delaney was thankful for his flannel muffler, vested suit, and balbriggan underwear.

Farris Fashions, a flannel shirt maker struggling to remain solvent after losing one of its biggest customers to a factory in China.

As soon as respiration is established, warmth may be promoted by the application of warm flannels to the body and bottles of hot water to the stomach, armpits, thighs, and feet.

She avoided horses too consistently for the rest of the year to claim any right to exhibit any on this one day at Bures, so she sat in the stands in her neat grey flannel and looked on.

Phil Carrara, wearing a light gray jacket and dark flannel trousers, was waiting for him, head bowed as if he were praying.

Warm as toast in her flannel nightgown in her pretty white-rattan bed beneath the hand-knit quilt Corinne had found in a Chautauqua Falls secondhand shop.

She parted the gown, revealing the pale curves of her breasts, her skin moist beneath the soft flannel.

Connor followed her trembling fingers as she unfastened her gown, white flannel parting, revealing glimpses of the treasures beneath--the hollow of her neck, the pale curves of her breasts, the shadow of her navel.

If the discharges contain much blood, a flannel cloth moistened with the spirits of turpentine should be laid over the lower part of the abdomen, and kept there until slight irritation is produced.

Clothes were my own chief care, for, freely as I had purged it at Flensburg, my wardrobe was still very unsuitable, and I had already irretrievably damaged two faultless pairs of white flannels.

Davies on the quay, bareheaded and wearing his old Norfolk jacket and stained grey flannels, as at our first meeting in Flensburg station.

I was facing a door about twenty feet distant, which exactly as I opened my eyes, turned slowly on its hinges, and the figure of Uncle Lorne, in his loose flannel habiliments, ineffaceably traced upon my memory, like every other detail of that ill-omened apparition, glided into the room, and crossing the thick carpet with long, soft steps, passed near me, looking upon me with a malign sort of curiosity for some two or three seconds, and sat down by the declining fire, with a side-long glance still fixed upon me.

Then he squeezed into what had been his loosest jeans and put on a green flannel shirt that he could not button all the way.

She saw Lance there in an old blue and white blazer and flannel trousers.