fleece
/fliːs/ sustantivo B2En español: vellón, vellocino, lana, toisón
- Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal.
- Insulating skin with the wool attached.
- A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher sheen.
- An insulating wooly jacket.
- Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer.
- Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
- The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
Plural fleeces
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At shearing time, wishing to take his fleece and to avoid expense, she sheared him herself, but used the shears so unskillfully that with the fleece she sheared the flesh.
If you want my flesh, there is the butcher, who will kill me in an instant; but if you want my fleece and wool, there is the shearer, who will shear and not hurt me.”
He flew around with a great whir of his wings and settled upon a large ram, with the intention of carrying him off, but his claws became entangled in the ram’s fleece and he was not able to release himself, although he fluttered with his feathers as much as he could.
“You will then obtain the Golden Fleece, if you are still in the ministry.”
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