[ ˌlɪnzɪ'wʊlzi ]
■ noun a strong, coarse fabric with a linen or cotton warp and a woollen weft.
Origin
C15: from linsey , orig. denoting a coarse linen fabric (prob. from Lindsey , a village in Suffolk) + wool + -sey as a rhyming suffix.
[ ˌlɪnzɪ'wʊlzi ]
■ noun a strong, coarse fabric with a linen or cotton warp and a woollen weft.
Origin
C15: from linsey , orig. denoting a coarse linen fabric (prob. from Lindsey , a village in Suffolk) + wool + -sey as a rhyming suffix.
Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004