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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
linsey-woolsey /ˌlɪnzɪˈwʊlzi/

▶noun a strong, coarse fabric with a linen or cotton warp and a woollen weft.

– origin C15: from linsey, orig. denoting a coarse linen fabric (prob. from Lindsey, a village in Suffolk) + wool + -sey as a rhyming suffix.

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