Flannel

Definitions

1. A soft cloth material originally woven from wool, today often combined with cotton or synthetic fibers.
   uncountable
2. A washcloth.
   British, New-Zealand, countable
3. A flannel shirt.
   US, countable
4. Soothing, plausible untruth or half-truth; claptrap.
   slang, uncountable
5. Synonym of flip (“hot mixture of beer, spirit, etc.”).
   UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“With the weather turning colder, it was time to dig⟳ out our flannel sheets and nightclothes.”

“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.”

“There’s a communal memory of [Kurt] Cobain’s wearing flannel in this video, and that this image was the dawn of grunge fashion.”

“"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."”

“Don't talk⟳ flannel!”

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