flannel
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈflænəl/
flannel
- (uncountable) A soft cloth material woven from wool, possibly combined with cotton or synthetic fibers.
- With the weather turning colder, it was time to dig out our flannel sheets and nightclothes.
- 2012, Tom Lamont, How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world (in The Daily Telegraph, 15 November 2012)
- First singer and guitarist Marcus Mumford, wearing a black suit, then bassist Ted Dwane, in leather bomber and T-shirt. Next bearded banjo player Winston Marshall, his blue flannel shirt hanging loose, and pianist Ben Lovett, wrapped in a woollen coat.
- (New Zealand, British, countable) A washcloth.
- (US, countable) A flannel shirt.
- (slang) Soothing plausible untruth and half truth, claptrap - ''"Don't talk flannel"
- French: flanelle
- German: Flanell
- Italian: flanella
- Portuguese: flanela
- Russian: флане́ль
- Spanish: franela
flannel (not comparable)
- Made of flannel.
- Russian: флане́левый
flannel (flannels, present participle flanneling; past and past participle flanneled)
- (transitive) To rub with a flannel.
- (transitive) To wrap in flannel.
- (transitive) To flatter; to suck up to.
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