linsey
linsey fabric,(now) of coarse wool on a cotton warp. XV. prob. f. name of Lindsey in Suffolk, where the manufacture is said to have originated.
Hence linsey-woolsey XV; + WOOL, with jingling ending.
Hence linsey-woolsey XV; + WOOL, with jingling ending.
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