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wincey noun
- British a plain- or twill-weave cloth, usually having a cotton or linen warp and a wool filling
Word Origin for wincey C19: of Scottish origin, probably an alteration of woolsey as in linsey-woolsey Examples from the Web for wincey Historical Examples of wincey
I have six bolls of meal and seven yards of wincey going up the glen in the Salachary cart.
Neil Munro
A merchant in Hopeton last winter donated three hundred yards of wincey to the asylum.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Her gypsy blood began to stir in her: the charm of her old vagabond habits asserted itself under the wincey frock and clean apron.
Lippincott’s Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XXVI., December, 1880.
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