Adjective : woolen cloth. From Dictionary.com.
You now return to the large hall where you first undressed, wrap in woollen shawls, and recline on a divan. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton] Reference
Generally even shades are readily obtained on any kind of woollen fabric. From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics] Reference
Their white robes, made of a heavy kind of woollen stuff, were so constantly bulged out with the air that they seemed made of wood. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
Compared to suit jackets, sturdier fabrics are used, such as woollen tweed or houndstooth. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
The prohibition of carrying wool or any kind of woollen goods manufactured here, from one colony to another. From Wordnik.com. [A Collection of interesting, authentic papers relative to the dispute between Great Britain and America [microform] : shewing the causes and progress of that misunderstanding from 1764 to 1775] Reference
Boil a piece of new woollen cloth for five minutes. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management] Reference
A woollen or linen garment that shall have the leprosy. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 03: Leviticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
Wash a piece of new woollen cloth in each of the following ways. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management] Reference
She was neatly dressed in a brown woollen frock nearly covered by. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
"Nothing but a brown woollen walking dress and a Mother Hubbard wrapper.". From Wordnik.com. [A Missionary Twig] Reference
"That ain't how I do it," he muttered, pulling on his heavy woollen sock. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Do not rub soap directly on the woollen material, but use soap solutions. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management] Reference
Thou shalt not wear a garment that is woven of woollen and linen together. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 05: Deuteronomy The Challoner Revision] Reference
Saturate a piece of new woollen cloth with a strong solution of washing soda. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management] Reference
Desvarennes, knitting woollen stockings for her husband while waiting for customers. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Above all, let the angler wear the best woollen underclothing, and in winter plenty of it. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
Put your worms when you are going to use them in a woollen bag in Spring, canvas in Summer. From Wordnik.com. [The Teesdale Angler] Reference
There was a woollen or felt blanket between them, and the two frames were held together by hooks. From Wordnik.com. [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference
Her thick dressing gown, and the woollen shawl that she carried all helped in extinguishing the flame. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
To tell the truth, two heavy curtains of woollen damask hung on either side of the window, but they were not drawn. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
This suit consists of two woollen wrappers, one worn around the middle of the body and the other around the shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
It's such a woollen world that one of the women has brought her knitting to the beach, and bends over her clicking needles. From Wordnik.com. [The big picture: Blackpool beach, 1948] Reference
The burghers arrived in the customary picturesqueness of woollen shirts, round hats, rough coats, and leathern veldt-broeks. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference
Beside the men's boots, which were patched and old, she wore a woollen skirt, a blouse, and a shawl over her head and shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
The men, like frightful wild animals, are clad in coarse woollen jackets with large girdles of leather studded with copper nails. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
And between the green woollen bell-ropes on each side of the fireplace and above the cold hideousness of the marble mantelpiece hung. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
The drivers burrow deep into the sand and wrap woollen baracans about them; the camels shiver and even blubber like whipped bullies. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
That the surface of each wool fibre woven into woollen materials is seen under the microscope to be covered with notches, or scales. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management] Reference
At Washington, they found the straw mattings had superseded woollen carpets, and the fire-places were ornamented with green branches. From Wordnik.com. [Rich Enough a tale of the times] Reference
The shepherd had a handkerchief round his head, a grey woollen blanket tied like a hood, and a six-cubit piece of cloth round his loins. From Wordnik.com. [Old Daniel] Reference
Nor was it easy to paddle in the double vessel; the gusts of wind seemed to go right through me as I stood there in my wet woollen shirt. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
There was a camp fire lighted, and her clothing was stretched on a line near it, and she herself was wrapped warmly in a dry woollen cloak. From Wordnik.com. [Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information] Reference
Unfortunately it is somewhat irritating to some skins, and many persons will declare that they cannot bear the feeling of anything woollen. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
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