flannelette
Britishnoun
Vocabulary lists containing flannelette
Example Sentences
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She feeds me a cup of milky tea and puts me into bed with a hot water bottle and flannelette sheets, and spreads two extra blankets on top.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
I lurk in the corner of the hallway in my flannelette pajamas, hoping to catch a glimpse of him.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
We had flannelette sheets, like children’s, and army-issue blankets, old ones that still said U.S.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
A flannelette, patented under the title of “Non-flam,” has been made with fire-resisting properties, but its sale has been more in the better qualities than in the lower and more dangerous ones.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
She had never known what it was to take a ten-dollar bill from a pile, and spend it with luxurious recklessness in white flannelette and nainsook and shirting and various colored calicoes for the children.
From God's Green Country A Novel of Canadian Rural Life by Chapman, Ethel M.
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