flannel
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English flaunneol, from Anglo-Norman flanelle (compare Norman flianné), diminutive of Old French flaine, floene (“coarse wool”), from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *wlānos, *wlanā (“wool”) (compare Welsh gwlân, Breton gloan), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂. More at wool.
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Noun[edit]
flannel (countable and uncountable, plural flannels)
- (uncountable) A soft cloth material originally woven from wool, today often combined with cotton or synthetic fibers.
- With the weather turning colder, it was time to dig out our flannel sheets and nightclothes.
- 2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, “How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world”, in The Daily Telegraph[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, British, countable) A washcloth.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- "The Witch of Endor was a fool to her, sir: bless you, she would make no more of raising every gentleman in the Bible out of these here beastly tombs than I should of growing cress on an old flannel."
- (US, countable) A flannel shirt.
- (slang, uncountable) Soothing, plausible untruth or half-truth; claptrap.
- Don't talk flannel!
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Translations[edit]
soft cloth material
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washcloth — see 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 or flannelling, simple past and past participle flanneled or flannelled)
- (transitive) To rub with a flannel.
- (transitive) To wrap in flannel.
- (transitive) To flatter; to suck up to.
- (transitive, slang) To waffle or prevaricate.
- 2016, J. F. Langer, From the Spitfire Cockpit to the Cabinet Office:
- I got a little cross and asked him to stop flannelling and to tell me what was holding me back. Were my annual assessments below par? Was there something I had done – or not done?
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Danish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From English flannel. Cognate to flonel and to Welsh gwlân (“wool”).
Noun[edit]
flannel
References[edit]
- “flannel” in Den Danske Ordbog
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