bright wool

noun

1. the wool of sheep raised east of the Mississippi River.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bright wool¹

So called from its shade

Example Sentences

The style of Kent’s craftspeople has been detected in the bright wool of the frieze.

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Fatima sat with a bright wool hat over her smooth head, looking taller out of the hospital bed, her legs akimbo in jeans and sneakers, jostling with the siblings who sat with her.

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At one time the women would be dressed in the bright wool patterns of folk dance.

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“Yes; kill me a Redcoat for this,” and Janet tossed him her glove, while Dorothy tied a strand of the bright wool from her knitting ball upon his sleeve.

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On one side a long case with glass doors above and drawers underneath, filled with bottles and books and papers, perhaps in not the most systematic order; at the farther end a fire in an open-front stove; a luxurious Turkish lounge covered with russet leather, and a bright wool blanket thrown carelessly over it; several capacious armchairs; and in one, with his legs stretched out on another, sat Dr. Philip Maverick, eight and twenty or thirty years old, perhaps.

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