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/wˈʊlən/ Listen

adjective

Woolen adj. (Written also woollen)

Made of wool; consisting of wool; as, woolen goods.

Of or pertaining to wool or woolen cloths; as, woolen manufactures; a woolen mill; a woolen draper.

Woolen scribbler, a machine for combing or preparing wool in thin, downy, translucent layers.

noun

Woolen n. Cloth made of wool; woollen goods.

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"Woolen" Quotes from Famous Books

... above Bratner's, and Seth proposed to Marion that she should have a try at them. They would start early in the morning, stop the night at Bratner's, and be back home late the second evening. Marion reluctantly consented, and before going to bed that night she laid out woolen underwear, her stoutest riding costume, with divided skirts and knickerbockers and tan boots lacing almost to her knees. She did not want to go, but, as more than once before, she yielded to Seth's insistence rather ...

— The Heart of Thunder Mountain • Edfrid A. Bingham

... the back seat sits Mary Lyman, or Polly, as almost everybody calls her, with a blue woolen cape over her shoulders, called a vandyke, and her hair pulled and tied, and doubled and twisted, and then a goosequill shot through it like ...

— Little Grandmother • Sophie May

... her eyes and recognized Regulas Rothsay—but so well grown, so well dressed, and well looking as to be hardly recognizable, except from his strong, characteristic head and face. He wore a neatly fitting suit of dark-blue cloth; neat woolen gloves covered his large hands; his hair was trimmed and as nicely dressed as such ...

— For Woman's Love • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth

... he had his feet very firmly on a rather uninspired earth. He was getting on in the woolen business, which happened to be the vocation his father had handed down to him. He belonged to an amusing club, and he still felt himself irrevocably widowed by the early death of the girl in the photograph he so faithfully cherished. Eleanor was a ...

— Turn About Eleanor • Ethel M. Kelley

... him up and down till his hat flew off. But mainly the young people were in huge bowered lumber wagons in wildly hilarious groups. The girls in their simple white dresses tied with blue ribbon at the waist, and the boys in their thick woolen suits which did all-round duty ...

— A Spoil of Office - A Story of the Modern West • Hamlin Garland

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