Meanings
- not comparableWearing clothes made of flannel; especially wearing cricket whites.
A decided improvement is, however, to substitute the flannelled mackintosh, made by Messrs Walters and Co., for the blanket.
1875 March 28, J. L. Milton, “On the Treatment of Secondary Syphilis”, in Edinburgh Medical Journal, volume 20, page 7903 more examples
His impressions of headmasters were for the most part taken against a background of white-flannelled boys in playing-fields or grey-flannelled boys in walled court-yards.
1918, Herbert George Wells, Joan and Peter: The Story of an Education, volume 2, page 260There was an oak-framed "Light of the World" over the bed, supplemented on the other walls with progressive personal records — eleven podgy, flannelled little boys in quartered chocolate-and-gold caps, guarded and patronized by a flannelled and whiskered master […]
1921, Stephen McKenna, The Education of Eric Lane, page 110Well, he wasn't bad-looking, he had a kind of unblinking concentration that amused her, and he was in a different class from those flannelled undergraduates, all books and bats and bicycles, who jostled for her attention: at least Hector Ramsay did something; sometimes she could even smell the engine-oil on him when he came straight from flying.
2013, Derek Robinson, Piece of Cake
Origin
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