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lin⋅sey-wool⋅sey

  [lin-zee-wool-zee]
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–noun, plural -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.

Origin:
1425–75; late ME lynsy wolsye lit., linen cloth, wool cloth, equiv. to lyn (OE līn; see linen ) + -sy, var. of say cloth (< OF saie; akin to ML sagia kind of weave, L sagum cloak) + wol wool + -sye, var. of say
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lin·sey-wool·sey   (lĭn'zē-wŏŏl'zē)   
n.   pl. lin·sey-wool·seys
A coarse, woven fabric of wool and cotton or of wool and linen.

[Middle English linsiwolsie : alteration of linen, linen; see linen + wolle, wool; see wool.]
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