What's the difference between flannel and gabardine?

Flannel


Definition:

  • (n.) A soft, nappy, woolen cloth, of loose texture.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Likewise, it doesn't come over as flannel when Moore eulogises the hyper-networked LA scene.
  • (2) On Tuesday, the bunkhouse breakfast room felt like a hunting lodge, with wives and girlfriends serving meals while working-class men with beards, flannel shirts and dour expressions milled about.
  • (3) Flannel flags (100 X 200 mm) were tested for fleas collection directly at the entrances of rodents' holes in the steppe region.
  • (4) She’s had a long career in local government, in national government and she doesn’t like flannel.
  • (5) There was also a tendency to grey flannels and tweed jackets, and a "deplorable old raincoat".
  • (6) ", before being whipped off air and sent home with a cold flannel pressed to his forehead.
  • (7) An ice blanket constructed of flannel cloth and cold gel packs was applied to the limb for 45 minutes preoperatively.
  • (8) Patch testing with cotton flannel and methanol extracts were positive, but after estraction with methanol, the residual flannel did not react.
  • (9) Three forms of flannel are offered in justification.
  • (10) Both were in style and substance extensions of the magazine; early hardbacks included Barbara Skelton's Born Losers, J Maclaren-Ross's Memoirs Of The Forties, TC Worsley's Flannelled Fool and Keith Vaughan's Journals And Drawings, while the paperback series concentrated on younger writers and anthologies.
  • (11) Flannels was attacked, but he said this was unrelated.
  • (12) But conversations with PR professionals – including Britain's best-known former spinmeister – suggest she needed to give a concrete answer to this opening question, even if it came wrapped in some flannel.
  • (13) ", "Anyone wants anything from Flannels [department store]" and "Kill one black youth, we'll kill a million feds [police]".
  • (14) Sean Connery's blue flannel playsuit in Goldfinger, tied with Roger Moore's banana yellow ski suit with flared trousers in The Spy Who Loved Me.
  • (15) But where it would have been perfectly possible to answer a detailed question with a non-committal pledge – that a future review of flooding resilience, say, could also look at EA resources – Cameron instead reached for his flannel.
  • (16) Flannel flags assured the highest number of insects collected during quantitative assessment of fleas' populations.
  • (17) Capital spending pledges to 2020, zero-based budget reviews, flood defence spending in 2015, 2016, 2017 … The residents of Somerset could have told him a flannel is not much use in a flood.
  • (18) As rivals have fallen, Sports Direct, which now sells more than one in every four pairs of trainers in the UK, has also snapped up failing brands including JJB Sports and fashion chains Republic, USC, Flannels and Cruise.
  • (19) Flannel and felt mammy dolls at a booth nearby were priced $900.
  • (20) The task was the free placement of figures cut from felt on a flannel board.

Gabardine


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Gaberdine

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Wool blanketing, wool gabardine, and cotton sheeting materials were impregnated with the first of the above virucidal compounds, and the persistence of vaccinia virus on these fabrics was compared with the persistence of the agent on nonimpregnated fabrics of the same type held at 25 C in 35 and 78% relative humidity.
  • (2) The persistence of Salmonella typhimurium (V-31) on wool blanket, wool gabardine, cotton sheeting, cotton knit jersey, cotton terry cloth, and cotton wash-and-wear fabrics was studied.
  • (3) Viable bacterial populations persisted for 24 weeks at relatively high population densities on swatches of wool gabardine, cotton sheeting, cotton knit jersey, and cotton terry cloth exposed by direct contact and held in a humidity of 35%.
  • (4) The length of time that poliovirus could be recovered from wool gabardine and blanket, and from cotton sheeting, terry cloth, and knit jersey fabrics was determined under conditions of controlled temperature and humidity (25 C in 35 and 78% relative humidities).
  • (5) This organism retained its virulence for Swiss mice after being recovered from wool gabardine swatches held 8 weeks in humidities of 35 or 78% and from cotton terry cloth swatches held 6 weeks in the same humidities.
  • (6) Wool gabardine material was exposed to high concentrations of herpes simplex, vaccinia, parainfluenza, or polio viruses and was processed through the sterilizer.
  • (7) The persistence of vaccinia virus on wool (blanket and gabardine) and cotton (sheeting, terry cloth, and knit jersey) fabrics was studied.
  • (8) This organism retained its virulence for Swiss mice after being recovered from wool gabardine swatches held 4 weeks in 35% relative humidity and 6 weeks in 78% relative humidity.
  • (9) Ihave occasionally been a bit troubled by those old Pathé newsreel clips of British sporting events in which, at climactic moments, the men in the crowd chuck their hats – flat caps and trilbys – in the air, and turn to clap one another on worsted and gabardined backs.
  • (10) She was a widow from Liverpool, consistently dressed in a grey gabardine suit and flowered blouse.
  • (11) The persistence of Staphylococcus aureus (Smith) on wool blanket, wool gabardine, cotton sheeting, cotton knit jersey, cotton terry cloth, and cotton wash-and-wear fabrics was studied.

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