flannel
A soft cloth material originally woven from wool, today often combined with cotton or…A soft cloth material originally woven from wool, today often combined with cotton or synthetic fibers.
» I was wearing a flannel shirt.
Meaning
5 senses(uncountable)A soft cloth material originally woven from wool, today often combined with cotton or synthetic fibers.
With the weather turning colder, it was time to dig out our flannel sheets and nightclothes.
Flanell
флане́льflanɛ́lʹ
(New Zealand, UK, countable)A washcloth.
(US, countable)A flannel shirt.
(slang, uncountable)Soothing, plausible untruth or half-truth; claptrap.
Don't talk flannel!
(UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable)Synonym of flip (“hot mixture of beer, spirit, etc.”).
- a soft light woolen fabric; used for clothing
- (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth
- bath linen consisting of a piece of cloth used to wash the face and body
Examples
15 sentencesI was wearing a flannel shirt.
Tom is wearing a flannel shirt.
Tom was wearing a flannel shirt.
Tom wears the same red flannel shirt every time he goes camping.
ruТом надевает одну и ту же фланелевую рубашку каждый раз, когда отправляется в поход.
I wear flannel pajamas.
ruЯ ношу фланелевую пижаму.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English flaunneol, from Anglo-Norman flanelle (compare Norman flianné), diminuFrom Middle English flaunneol, from Anglo-Norman flanelle (compare Norman flianné), diminutive of Old French flaine, floene (“coarse wool”), from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *wlānos, *wlanā (“wool”) (compare Welsh gwlân, Breton gloan), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂. More at wool.
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Forms
plural: flannelsSynonyms
7 synonymsWord family
20 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable