(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.
Poplin
Definition:
(n.) A fabric of many varieties, usually made of silk and worsted, -- used especially for women's dresses.
Example Sentences:
(1) This article describes the evolution of prenatal care in Latin America during the past 2 decades based on a literature review which utilized the Medline, Popline, and Lilacs (Pan American Health Organization) data bases.
(2) In a prospective, controlled clinical trial, nonwoven, disposable gown and drape fabrics were no better barriers to intraoperative wound contamination or postoperative wound infection than reusable cotton poplin.