Meaning of woolleny | Babel Free

Definitions

Resembling wool.

rare

Examples

“I have a veil, a beautiful—⁠—have, did I say? Alas! Troy was. But I must not anticipate—⁠—a beautiful veil of brown tissue, none of your woolleny, gruff fabrics, fit only for penance, but a silken, gossamery cloud, soft as a baby’s cheek. Yet everybody fleers at it.”

“Dascome brought his car to a stop just this side of the glow, on a bit of level beside the road which, in that woolleny fog, Karesia would never have discovered, but which either his keener eye or his instinct discovered for him.”

“From devotions he went to tea and cold “woolleny” bread in Commons.”

“Among them were some very fine braces and drills, with any number of twists, bits, wedges, cold chisels and cutters. They were all in apple-pie order, laid away in oil, in a kind of woolleny serge, and tin boxes over all.”

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