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clean wool

British  

noun

  1. wool that has been scoured to remove wax

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Clothing You’ll want changes of underwear, comfortable shoes, and clean wool socks.

From The Verge • Aug. 25, 2017

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

Some teased the clean wool, and some carded it.

From Good Stories for Holidays by Olcott, Frances Jenkins

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