Crimean flannel

noun

A type of flannel material used to make Crimean shirts.

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Meanings

nounCrimean flannel (countable and uncountable, plural Crimean flannels)

plural Crimean flannels

  1. uncountableA type of flannel material used to make Crimean shirts.
  2. countableA Crimean shirt.

    His shirt, an ordinary Crimean flannel, was exquisitely clean, and outside the "lean-to" another was drying on a bush.

    1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 161
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APA

Crimean flannel. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Crimean%20flannel

MLA

“Crimean flannel.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Crimean%20flannel. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Crimean flannel,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Crimean%20flannel.

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