Meaning

5 senses
  1. (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

  2. (New Zealand, UK, countable)A washcloth.

  3. (US, countable)A flannel shirt.

  4. (slang, uncountable)Soothing, plausible untruth or half-truth; claptrap.

    Don't talk flannel!

  5. (UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable)Synonym of flip (“hot mixture of beer, spirit, etc.”).

More definitions
  • 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 sentences
  1. I was wearing a flannel shirt.

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  2. Tom is wearing a flannel shirt.

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  3. Tom was wearing a flannel shirt.

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  4. 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.

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  5. I wear flannel pajamas.

    ruЯ ношу фланелевую пижаму.

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Translations

7 languages
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soft cloth material:
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soft cloth material:

Origin

From Middle English flaunneol, from Anglo-Norman flanelle (compare Norman flianné), diminu

From 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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