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Woolsey

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A characteristical surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A material made of cotton and wool. uncountable

    "Mickey was the best hurler in the barony, no mean performer on the violin, could dance the national bolero of "Tatter Jack Walsh" in a way that charmed more than one soft heart beneath a red woolsey bodice, and had, withal, the peculiar free-and-easy devil-may-care kind of off-hand Irish way that never deserted him in the midst of his wiliest and most subtle moments, giving to a very deep and cunning fellow all the apparent frankness and openness of a country lad."

Etymology

Variant of Wolsey.

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