fleeced

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adjective

having a fleece of a specified kind (usually used in combination): a thick-fleeced animal.

covered with fleece or a fleecelike material.

(of a fabric) having a softly napped surface.

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Origin of fleeced

First recorded in 1520–30; fleece + -ed³

un·fleeced, adjective

From these have descended the high-bred, silken-fleeced Saxons, whose wool stands confessedly without a rival.
Domestic Animals|Richard L. Allen
So the sea-god sent a golden-fleeced ram, which Phryxus and Helle mounted and thus escaped from their cruel stepmother.
Stories of Old Greece and Rome|Emilie Kip Baker
Call upon Dr Jolliffe indeed, to get a couple of school-boys, whom he had fleeced, into a shindy!
Dr. Jolliffe's Boys|Lewis Hough
This crime syndicate had its agents in many cities, where victims were selected and sent to the mountains to be fleeced.
The Pony Rider Boys on the Blue Ridge|Frank Gee Patchin

If they suppose I'm going to pay half-a-crown for the privilege of being fleeced——!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 108, February 23, 1895|Various