Adam's flannel
English
editEtymology
editIn reference to the Biblical Adam, who would have had to improvise clothing from plant materials.
Noun
edit- (Chester) The mullein (Verbascum thapsus).[1]
References
edit- ^ Robert Holland, M.R.A.C., A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester, Part I--A to F., English Dialect Society, London, 1884, 3