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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
woollen
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cotton/woollen/silk etc cloth
▪ a dress of the finest silk cloth
rubber/leather/woollen etc gloves
▪ Dr McIntyre was slowly removing his rubber gloves.
woollen/cotton/nylon socks
▪ Cotton socks are better for your feet.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
blanket
▪ She had been wrapped in a woollen blanket and the only clothes she wore were a felt hat and fur shoes.
cloth
▪ Shearmen, who cut the pile to finish woollen cloth, were similarly paid.
▪ Oxford mixture, dark grey woollen cloth.
▪ Kalchu finished weaving the last whitish length of woollen cloth to make a jacket and put his loom away.
▪ Melton is a thick, very tightly woven woollen cloth.
▪ It is often found near old mills where the extract was used for washing the woollen cloth produced there.
▪ The values of the raw wool and the woollen cloth are included in the value of the coat.
▪ Products from logwood formed an important source of dyestuffs for silk, and more important, woollen cloth.
dress
▪ Jenna changed into a soft woollen dress of dark blue and tied her hair back in a band.
▪ I watched her knotted calves rise and fall below her heavy, woollen dress.
▪ Although her woollen dress was scarlet it none the less appeared drab.
▪ She was wearing the dark green woollen dress that showed off her still remarkable contours.
▪ She was dressed, fully dressed, in a grey woollen dress with a soft-scarlet suede belt at her waist.
glove
▪ The stems were wet and she felt the dampness seeping through her woollen gloves.
▪ The sickening feel of woollen gloves being pulled on to your hands and hitting and blunting your fingertips so touch was lost.
▪ I was wearing a heavy overcoat and woollen gloves but the bust whipped its way right into my bones.
hat
▪ Just a wet walker in a woollen hat, eating a cheese sandwich in the rain.
▪ Claris looks out from under her limp-brimmed woollen hat and asks me for an orange with a charming broken-toothed smile.
▪ She ought to have recognized Harry, that woollen hat, the jacket.
▪ I pulled off my woollen hat and shook out my hair and at once recognition dawned in her face.
▪ I pulled on my woollen hat.
▪ A man in overalls and a woollen hat with a bobble on top appeared.
industry
▪ Except in the colourful person of the legendary John Winchcombe, the Berkshire woollen industry had little in the way of glamour.
▪ Its many alterations and additions reflect in stone and brick, the looms and busts at the woollen industry.
▪ A small, but thriving, woollen industry existed around the village then.
▪ It is pleasant to record that today there is again a village woollen industry.
mill
▪ Where what is now a carriage museum was once a woollen mill where the red shirts for Garibaldi's army were made.
▪ Down below is Porth-y-Rhaw Bay, once the site of a woollen mill and a lime kiln.
▪ Several silk mills were set up around the Chalford Valley, but the majority made use of the then-vacant woollen mills.
▪ Why did the factory owners avoid the main valley of the River Aire for their woollen mills and towns?
▪ They are mostly of brick, unlike the woollen mills of Yorkshire, which are nearly always of stone.
textile
▪ Generally, all woollen textiles are of felt or employ plain weave.
▪ But our main story lies with the woollen textiles.
▪ For towns of medium size a big stake in the woollen textile industry was the surest foundation of prosperity.
▪ Yorkshire kept to woollen textiles with a major market in Leeds.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Aran cable woollen cardigan with ethnic embroidery, £42.99.
▪ Chunky navy woollen sweater with zip-up front, £147.
▪ Jenna changed into a soft woollen dress of dark blue and tied her hair back in a band.
▪ Navy woollen bolero cardigan with large paisley wool embroidery, £42.99.
▪ Several silk mills were set up around the Chalford Valley, but the majority made use of the then-vacant woollen mills.
▪ The Sheffield cutlery trades, London printing, paper making, coal mining and woollen manufacture all provide well-documented examples.
▪ The woman was wearing a pink quilted satin affair, the man a woollen red-and-blue tartan job.
▪ Where what is now a carriage museum was once a woollen mill where the red shirts for Garibaldi's army were made.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
woollen

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.

Wiktionary
woollen

a. (context British spelling English) (alternative form of woolen English) n. (context British spelling English) (alternative form of woolen English)

WordNet
woollen

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

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

Usage examples of "woollen".

It came as a shock to realize that she had no record of her baby, no photograph or souvenir, apart from the single woollen bootee that she had retrieved from his cot.

They were escorted by a gigantic man, almost black, with a zigzag scar across the left side of his face, who wore a shining brown burnous over a grey woollen jacket.

Edinburgh to improve, enlarge, and adorn the avenues and streets of that city, according to a concerted plan, to be executed by voluntary subscription: a third, allowing the exportation of wool and woollen yarn from Ireland into any port in Great Britain: and a fourth, prescribing the breadth of the wheels belonging to heavy carriages, that the high roads of the kingdom might be the better preserved.

He was an East Coast man, and that cardigan, or some form of woollen pullover, was never discarded until it was hot enough to melt the tar on the Martires Atlante opposite.

And now the crawling things must be coming for her, writhing closer and closer every moment in the dark, perhaps even now twining slipperily about the bedposts and oozing up over the coarse woollen blankets.

The parliament prohibited the exportation of woollen goods, which was not so well judged, especially while the exportation of unwrought wool was so much allowed and encouraged.

Here the goods included the coarse woollen cloth made in most Tibetan households, squares of silk from China, cheap printed material from India, maize and rice from Bhutan, spices, the usual home-grown vegetables, tea-bricks, ritual objects, coral, amber and agate necklaces, talisman boxes and tea-cups of polished birch and maple.

Leading Warain to his stall, she rubbed him down with fresh straw, filled his feedbox with grain, and covered his grey back with a thick woollen blanket.

Arinbiorn, but as the sword fleeth, when it springeth up from the iron helm to fall on the woollen coat.

The Inca, they relate, also caused to be made a great woollen chain of many colours, garnished with gold plates, and two red fringes at the end.

He crossed the street briskly, and when he rounded the corner nearest the apartment block he saw Irena sitting in the parked Skoda, a woollen scarf partly covering her face.

Commander called, Longton came over and together the two officers lifted the red woollen carpet away from the wall to reveal the polished floorboards below.

Lying in wait for English and Russian ships carrying goods to Peter the Great, the pirates took many valuable prizes, with cargoes consisting of fittings for ships, arms, and warm woollen clothing.

Nearby was a scattered settlement of houses outside which stood small, dark-skinned Quechua Indians dressed in ponchos, balaclavas and colourful woollen hats.

But if the manure is poor, consisting largely of straw, it will be very desirable to make it richer by mixing with it bone-dust, blood, hen-droppings, woollen rags, chamber-lye, and animal matter of any kind that you can find.