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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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