flannel
/ˈflænəl/ noun B2- A soft cloth material originally woven from wool, today often combined with cotton or synthetic fibers. · With the weather turning colder, it was time to dig out our flannel sheets and nightclothes.
- A flannel shirt.
- Soothing, plausible untruth or half-truth; claptrap. · Don't talk flannel!
Plural flannels
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Now, I’ll undress Minnie May and put her to bed and you try to find some soft flannel cloths, Diana.
The official received us with a very grave face and showed us into a sitting-room, where an exceedingly unkempt and agitated elderly man, clad in a flannel dressing-gown, was pacing up and down.
He was still wearing his favorite flannel pajamas and cozy slippers.
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