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A lad of four or five in linseywoolsey (blossomtime but there will be cheer in the kindly hearth when ere long the bowls are gathered and hutched) is standing on the urn secured by that circle of girlish fond hands.
Ulysses 2003
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His wife even is a jolly, portly dame, his children chubby rogues, with legs shaped like little old-fashioned mahogany bannisters -- his barns as big as fortresses -- his horses like mammoths -- his cattle enormous -- and his breeches surprisingly redundant in linseywoolsey.
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin
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They were dressed in gray cloaks, striped red and blue petticoats; drugget, or linseywoolsey gowns, that came within about three inches of their ankles.
The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
brtom commented on the word linseywoolsey
"A lad of four or five in linseywoolsey ..."
Joyce, Ulysses, 14
... joycean variant of linsey-woolsey
January 27, 2007