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Made of the soft wavy or curly hypertrophied undercoat of various hairy mammals

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Usage examples (31)
  • He wore woolen mittens.
  • A woolen sweater
  • He cut the half-woven woolen from the loom and threw the mingled mass of cloth and yarn in a pile in a corner of the room.
  • In our own Kangra mission we started to produce teazel, which is that spiky plant used in woolen mills for "teazing" woolen cloth.
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