Looking for sentences and phrases with the word linsey-woolsey? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
Camblet, fustian, susy, calimanco and linsey-woolsey – even to a non-historian, the sheer range of textile types and their names is intriguing.
A gray-haired woman wearing a gray linsey-woolsey dress opened the door, and her eyes widened as she took him in.
Other textiles boast names utterly mysterious to us, opening up a lost world of camblet and fustian, susy and cherryderry, calimanco and linsey-woolsey.
Examples from Classical Literature
Your labor is too skilled by far to manufacture bagging and linsey-woolsey.
Any ordinary manner, in comparison with Mr. Downie Meek's, would be as linsey-woolsey to three-pile velvet!
She was dressed in linsey-woolsey, and the overalls of the three sons were also home-spun.
His coat, moreover, is as torn as his linsey-woolsey jonquil hose.
Little Robert wore a red linsey-woolsey dress, and was a restless, active youngster with a big head, a round face and a pug-nose.
Four yards of linsey-woolsey, a yard in width, made a dress for any woman.
In truth, he thought she looked very pretty in it, better than in grogram or in linsey-woolsey, although at double the cost.
The literature of China is, happily, not all linsey-woolsey.
Outside the clothespress, on a peg, hangs a linsey-woolsey every-day gown that shows marks of wear.
You see I was in my linsey-woolsey frock, not dressed for company.
We have too much of the linsey-woolsey type of religion in our day.
In summer, a scarlet petticoat made of stammel or linsey-woolsey.
