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wincey
/ ˈɪԲɪ /
noun
- a plain- or twill-weave cloth, usually having a cotton or linen warp and a wool filling
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of wincey1
C19: of Scottish origin, probably an alteration of woolsey as in linsey-woolsey
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It was too dark to see his face, but I knew what it would look like: a kind of sad, wincey expression.
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Faith now, says she, In my wincey jacket!
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She was barefooted, as Eppie always was except on Sundays, and wore a coarse, gray wincey dress and a big apron.
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"I have six bolls of meal and seven yards of wincey going up the glen in the Salachary cart."
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Her gypsy blood began to stir in her: the charm of her old vagabond habits asserted itself under the wincey frock and clean apron.
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