lambswool
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
lambswool (countable and uncountable, plural lambswools)
- (uncountable) Wool from a lamb.
- (by extension, countable) Something made of wool from a lamb.
Etymology 2[edit]
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[edit]
lambswool
- 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 […]
- 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 82-85,[1]
French[edit]
Noun[edit]
lambswool m (plural lambswools)
- lambswool (wool)