flannel

About 1.09 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun 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.

2. noun A washcloth.
3. noun A flannel shirt.
4. noun Soothing, plausible untruth or half-truth; claptrap.

   Don't talk flannel!

5. noun Synonym of flip (“hot mixture of beer, spirit, etc.”).
6. adjective Made of flannel.
7. verb To rub with a flannel.
8. verb To wrap in flannel.

Similar words

tweed gabardine washrag washcloth face cloth white outing canton outing flannel flannell

Often followed by

shirt shirts and suit trousers board or nightgown pajamas

Word family

flannelly flannels