(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.
Duffle
Definition:
(n.) See Duffel.
Example Sentences:
(1) I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
(2) If the typical Aldermaston marcher could be characterised as a middle-class student in a duffle coat, his equivalent at the Holy Loch was a Clydesider of the skilled working class, either an apprentice or an older man (occasionally a woman) who belonged to a craft union and knew his anarchists from his syndicalists.
(3) "And up I come, looking about eight years old in baggy clothes and duffle coat, all ginger hair and glasses.
(4) Personally, the only item on her list which really made me wince is the recommendation not to be gay, which goes through so many ironic spin cycles it could wring out a hipster's duffle coat.
(5) The character, created in 1958 by Michael Bond, was named after the west London railway station where he was discovered wearing his blue duffle coat, red sowester and a sign instructing the finder to "please look after this bear".
(6) or, "Oh, God, you can't trust a man in a duffle coat, forget it", and so on.
(7) Either way, it's a jarring moment of decency in a carnival of exhibitionism; a disconcerting burst of modesty at a brazen flesh disco, like Liberace turning up at Studio 54 in duffle coat and waders.