linsey
Americannoun
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Cora woke in the pit of the night, her head resting on a rolled-up linsey blanket.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
Some were handsome matrons, some were young lasses, but all wore the snow-white kirtle and the short, striped linsey petticoat that showed their slender ankles and trimly-shod feet.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various
In petticoats of linsey red, And jackets neatly kept, The vrouws their knitting-needles sped And deftly spun and swept.
From Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable by Faris, John T. (John Thomson)
Opposite them, on a similar bench, was a row of little girls in linsey dresses and tow-linen pinafores.
From Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge by Bayne, Mary Addams
Some distance off, upon the roots of a wide-spreading elm, sat two barefooted, swarthy, scarred old hunters with raccoon skin caps, linsey hunting-shirts and buckskin breeches.
From Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge by Bayne, Mary Addams
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