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lin⋅sey

  [lin-zee]
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–noun, plural -seys.
linsey-woolsey.
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lin⋅sey-wool⋅sey

  [lin-zee-wool-zee]
–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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linsey-woolsey 
1483, originally a cloth woven from linen and wool, the words altered for the sake of a jingling sound. Linsey is attested from 1435, apparently meaning "coarse linen fabric."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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