linsey-woolsey 的定义
plural lin·sey-wool·seys.
- a coarse fabric woven from linen warp, or sometimes cotton, and coarse wool filling.
- a garment made from this.
- Archaic. any mixture that is incongruous or of poor quality; jumble: That last speech was a linsey-woolsey of stale platitudes.
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- James Woolsey, another former CIA director, has called for Pollard's release as have other former top U.S. officials.
- Former Rep. Lynn Woolsey tried to make the hearing about government transparency while remaining agnostic about extraterrestrials.
- Woolsey was also one of the leading experts in the media advocating for the invasion.
- “A so-called smart grid that is as vulnerable as what we've got is not smart at all,” Woolsey adds.
- Poignantly missing from the panel was American war photographer Linsey Addario.
- The women had on sun-bonnets; and some had linsey-woolsey frocks, some gingham ones, and a few of the young ones had on calico.
- She was dressed in linsey-woolsey, and the overalls of the three sons were also home-spun.
- The goods were of the home-made quality, known as "linsey-woolsey," a material worn by farmers almost universally in those days.
- His wife wore a calico dress for company, while the neighbor wives wore homespun linsey-woolsey.
- How he got at my birth behind my tangled mat of hair and wringing linsey-woolsey I know not to this day.