Meaning of flannelled | Babel Free

Definitions

Wearing clothes made of flannel; especially wearing cricket whites.

not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“A decided improvement is, however, to substitute the flannelled mackintosh, made by Messrs Walters and Co., for the blanket.”

“His impressions of headmasters were for the most part taken against a background of white-flannelled boys in playing-fields or grey-flannelled boys in walled court-yards.”

“There was an oak-framed "Light of the World" over the bed, supplemented on the other walls with progressive personal records — eleven podgy, flannelled little boys in quartered chocolate-and-gold caps, guarded and patronized by a flannelled and whiskered master […]”

“Well, he wasn't bad-looking, he had a kind of unblinking concentration that amused her, and he was in a different class from those flannelled undergraduates, all books and bats and bicycles, who jostled for her attention: at least Hector Ramsay did something; sometimes she could even smell the engine-oil on him when he came straight from flying.”

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