flannel
noun
a soft, slightly napped fabric of wool or wool and another fiber, used for trousers, jackets, shirts, etc.
flanneled
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past participleof flannel.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof flannel.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
flannelnouna soft, slightly napped fabric of wool or wool and another fiber, used for trousers, jackets, shirts, etc.
Example Sentences
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But by the time the woman and her daughter were down the block, the teacher was back with her flock of T-shirted and flanneled teenagers.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2016
This kind of talk by young statesmen of a type called by the late Rudyard Kipling "flanneled fools" does not go down in Warwick, the constituency of Mr. Eden.
From Time Magazine Archive
With a big grass-stain on his white flanneled knee, William Tilden, champion of the world, limped over to the umpire's stand and wiped Bis bleak face with a towel.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The tumult and the shouting dies," "Lest we forget," "The flanneled fools at the wicket, or the muddied oafs at the goals," "Who dies if England Live?"
From Time Magazine Archive
Not that there could be anything of the remotest interest to a dog in the sight of flanneled young people swatting a ball back and forth.
From Further Adventures of Lad by Albert Payson Terhune
