clean wool
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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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