noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a tweed/wool/sheepskin/leather coat
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I love her black leather coat.
cotton wool
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She put some disinfectant on a piece of cotton wool and dabbed it on her cheek.
steel wool
wire wool
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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She showered, quickly slipped on her black wool frock, a string of pearls.
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He is wearing a wrinkled black wool suit and vest.
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Which left cash enough for a second-hand cloak in black wool and the button boots in the window - if they fitted.
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The rider wore a gilded Grecian helmet that was crested with black and red wool and plumed with a white tuft.
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Her frail hands picked at her dress of black , fluffy wool .
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Lumberjack checks reworked in black and white wool are everywhere.
blue
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She felt quite chic in this soft blue wool suit, despite the wartime restrictions.
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Tipper Gore will wear a Jennifer George blue wool dress and jacket set topped by a sapphire alpaca coat for day.
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She sighed as she inspected her one good dark blue wool dress, its seat shiny with wear.
brown
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Beneath the cloak was a kind of blouse, made from woven brown wool with long sleeves edged in red.
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She was wearing a brown wool suit and hat, under which could be seen the ends of her curly bobbed hair.
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Traditionally this was always natural brown or cream wool , but bright colours are sometimes used nowadays.
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She was wrapped in soft brown wool .
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Her soft brown wool suit and velvet Vandyke cap perfectly complemented her auburn hair.
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Eventually, as I was very blonde, I chose a soft brown wool material embroidered with chenille of the same colour.
fine
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Applied with fine steel wool , the wax can darken faded wood and provide a resistant finish.
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The quality of the wool was also superior: it was a fine wool with little evidence of kemps.
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She shifted her position and adjusted the fine wool of her skirt over her bony knees.
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There, 50 or so textile mills produce what is widely acknowledged to be the finest wool cloth in the world.
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For a natural worn look, lightly rub down the varnish when hard with fine steel wool .
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She was wearing a chestnut-brown sweater in fine wool belted into a black skirt which swung calf length above high-heeled boots.
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Then sand lightly with fine steel wool , and dust off thoroughly, finishing with a tacky rag.
green
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A ball of green wool was passed around and we used it to bind ourselves together as the singing continued.
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A thick new olive green wool blanket covered Mrs Saulitis's window at night.
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A square of thin green wool scattered with small paisley shapes in yellow and red.
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Pictured above, olive green wool coat, £218; mustard three-quarter length sweater, £107; leggings £108.
pure
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They made me wonder if I could use pure woven wool as a base for my own technique with the machine.
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The Essentials one is superbly tailored in pure new wool gaberdine.
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Daylight reveals pure new wool in its true to life colours.
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His grey cloak was of pure wool pushed back over his shoulders, yet it was his face which attracted me.
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I wanted the garment to seem feminine even though it is made out of a yarn as heavy and warm as pure wool .
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The pure wool comes in over 50 colours.
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Grey flannel women's suit down from £210 to £139. Pure new wool jacket £175 to £99.
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Women's birdseye wool jackets £190 to £95. Pure new wool suit for men £295 to £199.
raw
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They controlled this cottage industry by buying, selling, transporting and exchanging raw wool , spun yam and woven cloth.
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The values of the raw wool and the woollen cloth are included in the value of the coat.
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A sheep farmer produces raw wool and sells it to a mill for £10.
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The mill uses the raw wool to produce cloth which it sells to a coat factory for £21.
red
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I stare in horror at its bloody mouth, that vertical stitch of red wool now dribbling crimson.
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My teeth were chattering, and the juice from the pear was dripping over my red wool mittens.
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A bag of red wool was produced from a work basket and the looped baubles glittered on the tree.
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They were the Mien, whose blue-turbaned women were swathed in dark robes accented with red wool ruffs.
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His nostrils had been stuffed with red wool .
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The red wool clings to the needles, and I have to prise each stitch off.
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The rider wore a gilded Grecian helmet that was crested with black and red wool and plumed with a white tuft.
soft
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She leaned lightly against the soft wool of his dark cashmere coat.
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She was wrapped in soft brown wool .
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Ashley drew the soft wool of her serape closer around her neck.
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Her soft brown wool suit and velvet Vandyke cap perfectly complemented her auburn hair.
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She felt quite chic in this soft blue wool suit, despite the wartime restrictions.
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Eventually, as I was very blonde, I chose a soft brown wool material embroidered with chenille of the same colour.
white
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It was white wool with a band of red figures waltzing round the welt.
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With a brisk motion, she brushes at the stains on her white wool dress.
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A plump woman in a white wool suit and dark glasses bought it and tried to pay for it by cheque.
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Lumberjack checks reworked in black and white wool are everywhere.
■ NOUN
coat
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Cocteau with a dark wool coat flung over his shoulders.
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M &038; S leads the field with an ankle-length wool coat at £99, while Top Shop's fitted version is £79.
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Pictured above, olive green wool coat , £218; mustard three-quarter length sweater, £107; leggings £108.
cotton
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You're like a sea of cotton wool .
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Not tranquillisers - no one benefits from making their life into a cotton wool ball.
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Sometimes people would wince more from the coldness of the alcohol on the cotton wool than they would from the needle.
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On the other hand you don't wrap things up in cotton wool .
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The silence was like wet cotton wool pressed into their ears.
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The ears can be made out of felt and a small tail can be made of cotton wool .
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She used to carry pads of cotton wool to dress the wounds from the chafing.
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The intertwining of the thin, twisted worms produces an appearance similar to that of cotton wool .
dress
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Nan wore the smart navy coat she had worn yesterday, but this time over a pale yellow wool dress .
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Tipper Gore will wear a Jennifer George blue wool dress and jacket set topped by a sapphire alpaca coat for day.
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It was a grey wool dress to-day, well cut, correct, but severe.
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With a brisk motion, she brushes at the stains on her white wool dress .
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A wool dress sculpted her slender figure and ended at mid-thigh.
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She sighed as she inspected her one good dark blue wool dress , its seat shiny with wear.
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Jane saw Gabby quietly standing in a corner in a beautiful gray wool dress Francois Brac had designed for her.
merchant
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It was built originally by one of the old wool merchants , who wanted to establish his family as landed gentry.
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They became weavers, or tailors, or wool merchants .
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Crosby Hall was built by Sir John Crosby, a wealthy grocer and wool merchant , and was completed in 1475.
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Being solid wool merchants at heart, they are not sure what to make of an engine that runs on paper.
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She was the daughter of Robert Keown, a London wool merchant .
shop
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She was still working in the wool shop by day and driving an ambulance at night.
steel
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Applied with fine steel wool , the wax can darken faded wood and provide a resistant finish.
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After the second with grade 0000 steel wool 8 Any finish can then be applied.
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For a natural worn look, lightly rub down the varnish when hard with fine steel wool .
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Then sand lightly with fine steel wool , and dust off thoroughly, finishing with a tacky rag.
suit
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Centre Pinstripe wool suit , £399, Daks at Simpsons.
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She does not succeed in persuasively outing the Don Juan / Superman with his diabolical red beard and Jaeger wool suits .
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As a result, the traditional party outfit of flamboyant cravat and tweed jacket has been replaced by the ninety-nine-pound wool suit .
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She was wearing a brown wool suit and hat, under which could be seen the ends of her curly bobbed hair.
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Right Pinstripe wool suit , £650, Burberry.
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He is wearing a wrinkled black wool suit and vest.
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She selected a £225 grey-green wool suit , £23 shirt and £20 silk tie.
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And yet his wool suit scrapes through the layer of eiderdown.
sweater
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Winter collection reductions include half-price wool sweaters , suits down from £79.99 to Pounds 40.
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This page Simon Godfrey, left, wears Aran wool sweater from Principles.
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Lisa B wears Aran wool sweater from Kent &038; Curwen.
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Graham Fink, right, wears Aran wool sweater by Austin Reed.
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I sniffed the lanolin of his rough wool sweater and the slaughtered smell of his jacket.
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He wore an anorak over a wool sweater with a polo neck and he wore tough cord jeans and walking boots.
trade
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By 1839, only fifteen of Chalford's mills remained in the wool trade .
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A modern statue of a shepherd carrying a ram on his shoulders symbolizes the place's dependence on the wool trade .
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It has remained a corn mill throughout its working life, having had no known connection with the wool trade .
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The Cistercian monks with their lay brothers administered the abbey wool trade .
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In the fourteenth century the village played a major role in the wool trade .
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The Furness monks conducted the local wool trade , administering the Grange at Hawkshead.
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A large proportion of the local population was actively employed in the wool trade , although it had certainly decreased.
wire
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They are looking at some wire wool that has rusted.
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She felt a wire wool of beard on her chin, and realised she was seeing the world two-dimensionally.
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The more stubborn food particles can be removed by gentle scrubbing with wire wool .
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Before you replace it, clean the two pipe ends thoroughly with wire wool , then brush on flux.
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She chose the cooker and began to scrape its insides with wire wool .
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The inside of the fitting should be brushed out with a special wire brush and rubbed with wire wool .
■ VERB
produce
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Recipes for plant dyes tested and tried over generations have produced distinctive colours for wool , tweed and tartan.
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A sheep farmer produces raw wool and sells it to a mill for £10.
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Qashqar produced textiles: wool or felt and carpets.
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The unit included a spinning mill within its plant, producing one hundred percent wool yarn.
pull
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You can not pull the wool over Hooper's eyes.
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But it's not easy to pull the wool over our eyes.
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He found out we had been pulling the wool over his eyes for quite some time.
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And to think she'd pulled the wool over Miss Phoebe's eyes!
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Then put the wool around the needle and pull the wool through both of the stitches.
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You can't pull the wool over my eyes like that.
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There are people who can pull the wool over peoples' eyes.
use
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They made me wonder if I could use pure woven wool as a base for my own technique with the machine.
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They are generally well made, using good quality wool , and based on a limited number of the older Caucasian designs.
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On several of the islands the entire plant, boiled in water, was used for dying wool a greenish-yellow colour.
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To soften around the eyes, blend the edges of the eye shadow. Use a cotton wool bud for this.
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The mill uses the raw wool to produce cloth which it sells to a coat factory for £21.
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In those days we had to use an oil wool , which was all right after you washed it, if somewhat coarse.
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Considerable work has also been undertaken to develop new blends using wool and experimenting with new man made fibres and dyestuffs.
wear
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This page Simon Godfrey, left, wears Aran wool sweater from Principles.
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Everyone else in the camp wore much-darned wool and cotton stockings.
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Lisa B wears Aran wool sweater from Kent &038; Curwen.
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She was wearing a brown wool suit and hat, under which could be seen the ends of her curly bobbed hair.
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Graham Fink, right, wears Aran wool sweater by Austin Reed.
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He is wearing a wrinkled black wool suit and vest.
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Opposite page Lisa B wears men's wool cardigan by Joseph.
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Unfortunately, this news will probably not encourage consumers to eat more lamb or wear more wool .
wrap
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She was wrapped in soft brown wool .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
corn/wool/cotton etc exchange
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It's a long time since you could go to your local corn exchange and see international artists for ten bob.
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March cotton rose 2. 04 cents to 84. 50 cents a pound on the New York Cotton Exchange .
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Numerous former corn exchanges have been converted into shopping arcades accordingly.
wrap sb (up) in cotton wool
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Is this coat wool ?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Boil eggs and decorate them with paints and put tufts of wool on for hair.
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Everyone else in the camp wore much-darned wool and cotton stockings.
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Intense heat and charcoal fumes from their stoves ensured that few wool combers reached the age of fifty.
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Sheep smell, too-of lanolin, the fatty exudate that waterproofs their wool .