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wincey

/ ˈɪԲɪ /

noun

  1. a plain- or twill-weave cloth, usually having a cotton or linen warp and a wool filling
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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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