Adjective : woolen cloth. From Dictionary.com.
As for shopping, yes, the quality of the woolens is superb. From Wordnik.com. [La Pena De Bernal And Guanajuato] Reference
Act stipulated that the dead were to be buried in English woolens rather than foreign textiles. From Wordnik.com. [1664, July] Reference
Dark blue is an excellent color for woolens and ginghams. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
For washing woolens, silks, or fine prints liable to fade. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
"We'll have the woolens there, under oilcloth if necessary.". From Wordnik.com. [The Order War]
"Two compartments " one for linens and the other for woolens. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Chaos]
Even the Hebrews of an early date were very skilful in weaving woolens. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
"I've got the transport for the Ruziosis's woolens - the black and the tan.". From Wordnik.com. [The Order War]
Four dressed like Min, in plain dark woolens, hurried on their way with trays. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Hunt]
Its milling properties are good, and the shorter sorts are suitable for woolens. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
Certain varieties of woolens are fulled nearly one-half their original width and length. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
They met a splendidly built, large man, dressed in a semi-arctic suit of woolens and furs. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
If woolens were wanted, sheep were sheared and the wool was dyed and spun and woven at home. From Wordnik.com. [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference
Some merchants had food, others jewelry or woolens, and still more boasted enameled pottery. From Wordnik.com. [Hadrian's Wall.html]
Rural working class allowed to legally participate in the manufacture of woolens for market. From Wordnik.com. [1690, May 20] Reference
The furs had evidently been raising entire hoards of little mothlets, and so had the woolens. From Wordnik.com. [Phoenix And Ashes]
Except for those wearing worn castoffs or possibly stolen clothes, everyone wore drab woolens. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Daggers]
States, including the manufacture of woolens, and I have no doubt it fully came up to that grade. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
For the first time, he realized that Nynaeve was not wearing the Two Rivers woolens he was used to. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Hunt]
She was swathed in fine woolens, the outermost one a chocolate brown adorned with cream-colored stripes. From Wordnik.com. [Children Of The Ice] Reference
To protect sweaters and other winter woolens, use sachets of orange and lemon peel, cedar chips, or lavender. From Wordnik.com. [Eliminating Pests] Reference
"Wheat, spices, and linen from Egypt; dates from Phoenicia; pork and cheese from Syracuse; woolens from Miletus.". From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
Not long ago the British manufacturers delivered another hard blow to the import of cloth and woolens from the West. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Bread] Reference
He counted four shops in a row-one dealing just in silks, another in woolens, a third in linens, and a fourth in cottons. From Wordnik.com. [Wellspring of Chaos]
He got into the car, watched by the two women, who were gazing at him over the pink and white woolens piled on the counter. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Man on the Bench]
He and his dozen companions shared the way with only two lumbering ox-carts and a handful of farmfolk in plain dark woolens. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Daggers]
But the "winter white" woolens that have been popular recently -- including coats, pantsuits and dresses -- can't be washed. From Wordnik.com. [Keeping White Woolens Looking Clean] Reference
British wool and woolens admitted into Portugal duty-free and Portuguese wine admitted into England at a greatly reduced rate. From Wordnik.com. [1668] Reference
Shoddy is derived from waste or rags of pure unmilled woolens, such as flannels, wraps, stockings, and all kinds of soft goods. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
Some wore embroidered linen or silk and some rough country woolens, yet the fact that they had not run spoke that much of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Daggers]
A young, pretty woman, even in the plain gray woolens she had adopted for disguise, but that was not what interested him about her. From Wordnik.com. [The Fires of Heaven]
Outland merchants in fine woolens leaped right along with locals in brocaded silk vests or those useless coats slung on their shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [A Crown of Swords]
Do carry sufficient heavy woolens including sweaters, (Full as well as half sleeved), drawers, woolen trousers, gloves, monkey caps etc. From Wordnik.com. [AMARNATH YATTRA 2009 -USEFUL INFORMATION, TIPS & GUIDELINES] Reference
Vice-President Calhoun had taken note of the coming storm, and in 1827, when the woolens bill, a highly protectionist measure, was before. From Wordnik.com. [Expansion and Conflict] Reference
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