flannel
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
flannel/ˈflanl/
▶noun
- 1 a kind of soft woven woollen or cotton fabric that is slightly milled and raised.
- 2 (flannels) men's trousers made of woollen flannel.
- 3 Brit. a small piece of towelling used for washing oneself.
- 4 Brit. informal bland, fluent talk used to avoid a difficult subject.
– origin ME: prob. from Welsh gwlanen ‘woollen article’, from gwlân ‘wool’.
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