lambswool
English
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editlambswool (countable and uncountable, plural lambswools)
- (uncountable) The wool of a lamb.
- Hypernym: wool
- Coordinate term: sheepswool
- (by extension, countable) A textile or garment made of wool from a lamb.
- Hypernym: woolen
- Coordinate term: sheepswool
Etymology 2
editSaid to be a corruption of an earlier lamasool or La Maes Abhal, "Day of the Apple Fruit", a festival to a pagan goddess.
Noun
editlambswool
- A festive drink of ale mixed with the pulp of roasted apples.
- 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 82-85,[1]
- Well Masters if you will eate nothing take away: Come, what doo we to passe away the time? Lay a crab in the fire to rost for Lambes-wooll […]
- 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 82-85,[1]
French
editNoun
editlambswool m (plural lambswools)
- lambswool (wool)