lambswool

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English

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Etymology 1

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From lamb +‎ -s- +‎ wool.

Noun

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lambswool (countable and uncountable, plural lambswools)

  1. (uncountable) The wool of a lamb.
    Hypernym: wool
    Coordinate term: sheepswool
  2. (by extension, countable) A textile or garment made of wool from a lamb.
    Hypernym: woolen
    Coordinate term: sheepswool

Etymology 2

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Said to be a corruption of an earlier lamasool or La Maes Abhal, "Day of the Apple Fruit", a festival to a pagan goddess.

Noun

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lambswool

  1. A festive drink of ale mixed with the pulp of roasted apples.
    • 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 82-85,[1]
      Well Masters if you will eate nothing take away: Come, what doo we to passe away the time? Lay a crab in the fire to rost for Lambes-wooll []

French

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Noun

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lambswool m (plural lambswools)

  1. lambswool (wool)