clean wool
Britishnoun
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Finish with a cozy pair of clean, wool socks and snuggle under a blanket for a Netflix rom-com and all is good!
From Seattle Times
Clothing You’ll want changes of underwear, comfortable shoes, and clean wool socks.
From The Verge
The people believed that their gods taught them to keep up a fire, to wear clean wool garments and to drink pure water, and it is certain that they were wise in doing all these things religiously, as they did.
From Project Gutenberg
Members of the graves registration company cut open each pocket and placed the personal effects of the dead in clean wool socks for dispatch to the quartermaster depot at Kansas City.
From Time Magazine Archive
The children were screaming, getting into the riot more, while pretending to try to get out, invading the Judge's back, and rubbing their clean wool into his whiskers, and the two neat servants, brought up like white children in his family, were not unaccustomed to either jovial handling or petting from their master, which he commonly concluded by a present of some kind.
From Project Gutenberg
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