woolleny

comparative more woolleny · superlative most woolleny

1. rareResembling wool.

   From devotions he went to tea and cold “woolleny” bread in Commons.

   1930, George D[unlap] Lyman, “Harvard”, in John Marsh, Pioneer: The Life Story of a Trail-blazer on Six Frontiers, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, book 1 (Sheepskin), page 37

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   I have a veil, a beautiful—⁠—have, did I say? Alas! Troy was. But I must not anticipate—⁠—a beautiful veil of brown tissue, none of your woolleny, gruff fabrics, fit only for penance, but a silken, gossamery cloud, soft as a baby’s cheek. Yet everybody fleers at it.

   1863, Gail Hamilton [pseudonym; Mary Abigail Dodge], chapter I, in Gala-Days, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, page 41

   Dascome brought his car to a stop just this side of the glow, on a bit of level beside the road which, in that woolleny fog, Karesia would never have discovered, but which either his keener eye or his instinct discovered for him.

   1924, Elizabeth Dejeans [pseudonym; Frances Elizabeth Janes Budgett], chapter XVII, in The Double House, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 94

   Among them were some very fine braces and drills, with any number of twists, bits, wedges, cold chisels and cutters. They were all in apple-pie order, laid away in oil, in a kind of woolleny serge, and tin boxes over all.

   1935, John Masefield, Victorious Troy or The Hurrying Angel, London; Toronto, Ont.: William Heinemann Ltd, page 287