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linsey

[ lin-zee ]

noun

, plural lin·seys.


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Poignantly missing from the panel was American war photographer Linsey Addario.

The women had on sun-bonnets; and some had linsey-woolsey frocks, some gingham ones, and a few of the young ones had on calico.

She was dressed in linsey-woolsey, and the overalls of the three sons were also home-spun.

The goods were of the home-made quality, known as "linsey-woolsey," a material worn by farmers almost universally in those days.

His wife wore a calico dress for company, while the neighbor wives wore homespun linsey-woolsey.

How he got at my birth behind my tangled mat of hair and wringing linsey-woolsey I know not to this day.

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Lin Senlinsey-woolsey