woolwear
English
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edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌwʊlˈwɛə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌwʊlˈwɛɹ/
Noun
editwoolwear (uncountable)
- Clothing made out of wool.
- 1929, Forest and Outdoors[1], volume 29, page 552:
- If you are clad in soft, warm, absorbent woolwear designed for treedom of action there will be no discomfort to mar your thrill when you bag the buck of the season.
- 1973, Winifred Nowottny -, Hopkins's Language of Prayer & Praise[2], page 9:
- And so one may re-read 'Epithalamion', observing that to put off bleached linen and woven woolwear and twiny boots is (even if comic) to shuffle off this mortal coil […]