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lin•sey-wool•sey



Pronunciation: (lin'zē-wool'zē), [key]
—n.,
—pl. -seys.
1. a coarse fabric woven from linen warp, or sometimes cotton, and coarse wool filling.
2. a garment made from this.
3. Archaic.any mixture that is incongruous or of poor quality; jumble: That last speech was a linsey-woolsey of stale platitudes. Also called linsey.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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