noun
pl. -·wool′seys- a coarse cloth made of linen and wool, or cotton and woolalso lin′sey
- Obs. an incongruous mixture; jumble
Origin of linsey-woolsey
Middle English linsy wolsye from lin, linen (see line) + wolle, wool + jingling suffixlinsey-woolsey
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linsey-woolsey
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pl. lin·sey-wool·seysA coarse, woven fabric of wool and cotton or of wool and linen.
Origin of linsey-woolsey
Middle English linsiwolsie alteration of linen linen ; see linen . wolle wool ; see wool .THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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