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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lambswool
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▪ a lambswool sweater
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lambswool

Etymology 1 n. 1 (context uncountable English) wool from a lamb. 2 (context by extension countable English) Something made of wool from a lamb. Etymology 2

n. A festive drink of ale mixed with the pulp of roasted apples.

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Lambswool

Lambswool is wool which is 50mm or shorter from the first shearing of a sheep, at around the age of seven months. It is soft, elastic, and slippery, and is used in high-grade textiles.

Weaner fleece is wool 50mm or longer from young sheep, that have been shorn for the first time, and which exhibits the characteristic lambs tip and staple structure.

Usage examples of "lambswool".

Tarma had her badly worried lately with all the cosseting she'd been doing -- like she was trying to keep Kethry wrapped safely in lambswool all the time -- but at this moment Kethry was rather glad to have the cosseting.

Tarma had her badly worried lately with all the cosseting she'd been doing—like she was trying to keep Kethry wrapped safely in lambswool all the time—but at this moment Kethry was rather glad to have the cosseting.

Tarma had her badly worried lately with all the cosseting she'd been doinglike she was trying to keep Kethry wrapped safely in lambswool all the timebut at this moment Kethry was rather glad to have the cosseting.

She was dressed for a meeting of the Needleworkers' Guild, in her fine, russet-brown lambswool gown trimmed with intricate bobbin lace of her own making and design, the sash of her office as Guild Representative of five counties so covered with embroidery that there was not a single thread of the original fabric showing.

Then, in a last-minute reversion to type, she threw the graceful ensemble onto the floor and pulled on Levi's, moccasins and an old lambswool sweater that had belonged to her husband, Zach.

Not so much the busywork laws concerning the decoration of the temple with red lambswool and badger skins and shittim wood, and not even the tough laws—.

Bundled in a cloak of shimmering white lambswool trimmed with gold-thread lace, her hair dressed with moonstones and garnets, she sat on her white pony like an overdressed doll instead of a skilled leronis.