flannel
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English [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
- flannen Template:qualifer
- flanan, flanning, flanen (SCotland)
Etymology [edit]
Middle English flaunneol, from Anglo-Norman flanelle (cf. Jersiais flianné), diminutive of Old French flaine, floene 'coarse wool', from Gaulish vlanā ‘wool’ (cf. Welsh gwlân, Breton gloan). More at wool.
Pronunciation [edit]
- Rhymes: -ænəl
Noun [edit]
flannel (countable and uncountable; plural flannels)
- (uncountable) A soft cloth material woven from wool, possibly combined with cotton or synthetic fibers.
- With the weather turning colder, it was time to dig out our flannel sheets and nightclothes.
- 2012, Tom Lamont, How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world (in The Daily Telegraph, 15 November 2012)[1]
- First singer and guitarist Marcus Mumford, wearing a black suit, then bassist Ted Dwane, in leather bomber and T-shirt. Next bearded banjo player Winston Marshall, his blue flannel shirt hanging loose, and pianist Ben Lovett, wrapped in a woollen coat.
- (New Zealand, UK) A washcloth.
- (slang) Soothing plausible untruth and half truth, claptrap - "Don't talk flannel" [2][3][4]
Derived terms [edit]
Terms derived from flannel
Translations [edit]
soft cloth material
washcloth
Adjective [edit]
flannel (not comparable)
- made of flannel
Translations [edit]
made of flannel
Verb [edit]
flannel (third-person singular simple present flannels, present participle flanneling, simple past and past participle flanneled)
- (transitive) to rub with a flannel
- to flatter; suck up to
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