woolen
woolen
Definition
woolen (-ən)
adjective
- made of wool
- of or relating to wool or woolen cloth
Etymology: ME wullen < OE
noun
woolen goods or clothing
woolen
Synonyms
woolen
Usage Examples
Adjective modifier
- other: With proper care, your Pashmina will last long after other woolens wear out.
Modifies a noun
- blanket: Maybe you should practice with an old, wet woolen blanket on a small section, first?
- mill: There is also a working woolen mill which is open to visitors.
- cloth: The manufacture of yarn and coarse woolen cloth affords employment to several persons.
- clothes: I hate the white people who lined the roads in their woolen clothes that kept them warm, watching us pass.
- industry: Shilhay - the heart of the woolen industry The heart of Exeter's woolen industry was situated at or near to Shilhay.
- hat: They also learned that three plastic drinks bottles can be made into a woolen hat!
Browse dictionary entries near woolen
- wool stapler
- wool sponge
- wool fat
- wool
- woofer
- woof
- wooer
- woody
- woodworking
- woodwork
- Woolf
- woolfell
- woolgather
- woolgrower
- woolhat
- woolly
- woolly aphid
- woolly bear
- woolly-headed
- Woolman
