WOOLLEN


Meaning of WOOLLEN in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

cotton/woollen/silk etc cloth

a dress of the finest silk cloth

rubber/leather/woollen etc gloves

Dr McIntyre was slowly removing his rubber gloves.

woollen/cotton/nylon socks

Cotton socks are better for your feet.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

blanket

She had been wrapped in a woollen blanket and the only clothes she wore were a felt hat and fur shoes.

cloth

Shearmen, who cut the pile to finish woollen cloth , were similarly paid.

Oxford mixture, dark grey woollen cloth .

Kalchu finished weaving the last whitish length of woollen cloth to make a jacket and put his loom away.

Melton is a thick, very tightly woven woollen cloth .

It is often found near old mills where the extract was used for washing the woollen cloth produced there.

The values of the raw wool and the woollen cloth are included in the value of the coat.

Products from logwood formed an important source of dyestuffs for silk, and more important, woollen cloth .

dress

Jenna changed into a soft woollen dress of dark blue and tied her hair back in a band.

I watched her knotted calves rise and fall below her heavy, woollen dress .

Although her woollen dress was scarlet it none the less appeared drab.

She was wearing the dark green woollen dress that showed off her still remarkable contours.

She was dressed , fully dressed, in a grey woollen dress with a soft-scarlet suede belt at her waist.

glove

The stems were wet and she felt the dampness seeping through her woollen gloves .

The sickening feel of woollen gloves being pulled on to your hands and hitting and blunting your fingertips so touch was lost.

I was wearing a heavy overcoat and woollen gloves but the bust whipped its way right into my bones.

hat

Just a wet walker in a woollen hat , eating a cheese sandwich in the rain.

Claris looks out from under her limp-brimmed woollen hat and asks me for an orange with a charming broken-toothed smile.

She ought to have recognized Harry, that woollen hat , the jacket.

I pulled off my woollen hat and shook out my hair and at once recognition dawned in her face.

I pulled on my woollen hat .

A man in overalls and a woollen hat with a bobble on top appeared.

industry

Except in the colourful person of the legendary John Winchcombe, the Berkshire woollen industry had little in the way of glamour.

Its many alterations and additions reflect in stone and brick, the looms and busts at the woollen industry .

A small, but thriving, woollen industry existed around the village then.

It is pleasant to record that today there is again a village woollen industry .

mill

Where what is now a carriage museum was once a woollen mill where the red shirts for Garibaldi's army were made.

Down below is Porth-y-Rhaw Bay, once the site of a woollen mill and a lime kiln.

Several silk mills were set up around the Chalford Valley, but the majority made use of the then-vacant woollen mills.

Why did the factory owners avoid the main valley of the River Aire for their woollen mills and towns?

They are mostly of brick, unlike the woollen mills of Yorkshire, which are nearly always of stone.

textile

Generally, all woollen textiles are of felt or employ plain weave.

But our main story lies with the woollen textiles .

For towns of medium size a big stake in the woollen textile industry was the surest foundation of prosperity.

Yorkshire kept to woollen textiles with a major market in Leeds.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Aran cable woollen cardigan with ethnic embroidery, £42.99.

Chunky navy woollen sweater with zip-up front, £147.

Jenna changed into a soft woollen dress of dark blue and tied her hair back in a band.

Navy woollen bolero cardigan with large paisley wool embroidery, £42.99.

Several silk mills were set up around the Chalford Valley, but the majority made use of the then-vacant woollen mills.

The Sheffield cutlery trades, London printing, paper making, coal mining and woollen manufacture all provide well-documented examples.

The woman was wearing a pink quilted satin affair, the man a woollen red-and-blue tartan job.

Where what is now a carriage museum was once a woollen mill where the red shirts for Garibaldi's army were made.

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