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flanny

/ ˈflænɪ /

noun

  1. slang,  a shirt made of flannel or flannelette

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Flanny, who runs Largo, encouraged me to have musical guests, so I started doing Elliott Smith covers.

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Largo at the Coronet “‘City of Nets’ was recommended to me by Flanny, the owner at Largo, where we’ve played.

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Largo at the Coronet“‘City of Nets’ was recommended to me by Flanny, the owner at Largo, where we’ve played.

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For Flanny, O'Connor's American South is a fictional landscape "as rich in its history and culture as Tolstoy or Flaubert and as fantastic as Tolkien", a place where "the chiaroscuro of Rembrandt meets the folk-surrealism of Thomas Hart Benton, and where the innocence of early Disney cartoons meets the angst and foreboding of Alfred Hitchcock".

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As a Southerner himself, Flanny finds her work crucial to understanding the "racial, religious, political and class struggles" of his birthplace.

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