(n.) A kind of coarse woolen cloth, having a thick nap or frieze.
Example Sentences:
(1) The statement said a search of one gang member’s house unearthed a red duffel bag with an Italian flag that contained Regeni’s student cards, credit cards, mobile phones and a brown wallet with his passport in, as well as a second wallet emblazoned with the word “love” and other personal effects such as sunglasses.
(2) Shola Obadeyu wore a heavy duffel coat while queueing in Heathrow for a flight back to her sweltering home city of Abuja.
(3) "The duffel bag was full of watches and jewellery."
(4) Colman's mustard yellow, a shade Hockney has often chosen for trousers, appeared in leather duffel bags and soft lace-up shoes.
(5) Click here for the Paddington trailer There was a swift online reaction to the still image from the film pictured above, in which Paddington looks less like the harmlessly bumbling bear of Michael Bond's books and more a malevolent creature, disturbingly sentient enough to dress itself in a duffel coat.
(6) However such big economic decisions need more professional evidence, said Duffell: "Volunteers are exceptionally useful, but you always need somebody to critically check it."
(7) In a picture of him as a teenager in the early 1950s, he is standing outside his parents' front door wearing a duffel coat, which reminds me of last season's Raf Simons , over a suit with a tie.
(8) The 50-year-old, Dartford-born film-maker is huddled inside a navy-blue duffel coat as she sips tea in the library of a London hotel.
(9) Hustling to leave the house, grabbing snacks and duffel bags.
(10) This has led to a ludicrous situation wherein dispensary owners are having to stuff duffel bags with wads of cash and drive along discreet routes – sometimes under armed guard – to pay utility bills, rent, license fees and even their taxes.
(11) "I still feel rather protective of this bear," Firth continued, clearly having taken note of the luggage tag attached to Paddington's duffel coat, "and I'm pestering them all with suggestions for finding a voice worthy of him."
(12) But the finished product is reassuringly traditional: as comforting as marmalade on hot toast in your favourite duffel.
(13) Dressed in his usual sharp suit and tie and the same designer duffel coat he was wearing that night, he arrived late to meet the Guardian, as he was so shaken by the Chelsea fans who wouldn’t let him board a train because he was black that he now felt afraid to take public transport.
(14) By 8.45pm the reporter was about to give up and go to the cinema when he saw a man in the same black duffel coat as in the video.
(15) All there was was his duffel with a massive great boulder on it,” says Flo.
(16) He travelled to the hearing with a duffel bag of clothes and food in case he was detained immediately after the ruling.
(17) All this – hard drives, files, notebooks, floppy disks – were also handed over to Michael Pietsch, the novelist's friend and editor, at the American publisher Little, Brown who took it away in a duffel bag and two bulging sacks.
(18) The fashion district in particular seems to be where this is thriving at the moment.” During the sweep, agents searched approximately 50 businesses and seized massive amounts of cash stored in cardboard boxes and duffel bags, officials said.
(19) "The critical thing is things are changing in the environment," said Mark Duffell, a former student and now freelance ecologist and campaign founder.
Duffer
Definition:
(n.) A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap, flashy articles, as sham jewelry; hence, a sham or cheat.
(n.) A stupid, awkward, inefficient person.
Example Sentences:
(1) They’re throwing everything they’ve got at this and, while there are bound to be a few duffers in the mix, you can bet that your mum will end up loving at least one of them.
(2) The West End debut of Keira Knightley will irresistibly get all the headlines and shift a lot of the tickets, though the rest of the cast of The Misanthrope – including Damian Lewis, Dominic Rowan and Tara Fitzgerald – are not exactly duffers.
(3) For the first time in years, the BBC has taken the contest seriously, stung by criticism from viewers and the rest of the continent that despite the UK's musical heritage it ends up entering duffers.
(4) Asked if the children may go on an adventurous sailing-and-camping expedition, the absent father replies, heartlessly: "Better drowned than duffers if not duffers will not drown."
(5) When the New York Times reporter Don Van Natta Jr played with Clinton in 2000, the duffer-in-chief simply replayed any of his stray shots, leading Van Natta to conclude that "[Clinton] followed the rules .
(6) Hardly anybody eats the stuff beyond a few old duffers nostalgic for the bad old days when protein was scarce, and a few ridiculous rump-imperialist uyoku.
(7) As a joke doing the rounds in Delhi put it, the three national-party candidates were a Duffer, a Bluffer and a Muffler.
(8) My hunch is that the old, badly informed duffers at the top of the BBC who took this perverse decision have yet to actually sit through Sun, Sex & Suspicious Parents .
(9) What says "This is my world now, you past-it old duffer" more than being tossed your child's defunct smartphone?
(10) Precocious rapid sleep duffers from usual one in an inclusion into the dream content the experimental situations and their emotional saturation.
(11) Firebrand lawyer and human rights campaigner Asma Jahangir caused a sensation by delivering a television tongue-lashing against "duffer" generals who, she said, were more interested in running wedding halls than defending their territory.
(12) The duffer was Rahul Gandhi; the muffler referred to third-party leader Arvind Kejriwal's habit of wrapping himself in a scarf.
(13) Katie Allen (@KatieAllenGdn) Carney on review post forex rigging stories: we can't come out of this with a shadow of doubt about the integrity of the Bank of England March 11, 2014 George Mudie MP, though, isn’t impressed -- accusing Carney of acting like his predecessor Sir Mervyn King by passing the buck onto other people; either the ‘old duffers’ on the Bank’s Court, or to FCA boss Martin Wheatley.
(14) It's good of you to put on a much more lavish show for us than you did for that old duffer, Gordo.
(15) Louis van Gaal is a duffer all over again after supervising three defeats in a row – the light aeroplane on duty at Anfield might soon be back here at this rate – while Tony Pulis is a genius once more for all but securing safety for his side at the most intimidating of venues.