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Word entry · 7 letters

flannel

Best crossword clue

"Soft woolen fabric"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈflænəl/Part of speech nounSorted aefllnnStarts with FEnds with L2 cluesCommon crossword word
1F2L3A4N5N6E7L

Definitions

  1. a soft light woolen fabric; used for clothing

Word origin

From Middle English flaunneol, from Anglo-Norman flanelle (compare Norman flianné), diminutive of Old French flaine, floene (“coarse wool”), from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *wlānos, *wlanā (“wool”) (compare Welsh gwlân, Breton gloan), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂. More at wool.

Used in a sentence

  • With the weather turning colder, it was time to dig out our flannel sheets and nightclothes.
  • There’s a communal memory of [Kurt] Cobain’s wearing flannel in this video, and that this image was the dawn of grunge fashion.
  • "The Witch of Endor was a fool to her, sir: bless you, she would make no more of raising every gentleman in the Bible out of these here beastly tombs than I should of growing cress on an old flannel."

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Soft woolen fabric7 letters
02Soft woven fabric7 letters

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