woolen

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   made of wool or relating to wool

   He wore a woolen coat against the cold.

2. 2
   noun

   cloth or clothing made from wool

   The shop sold heavy woolens for winter.

From Middle English wollen, wullen, from Old English wyllen, from Proto-Germanic *wullīnaz (“woollen”), equivalent to wool + -en. Cognate with Scots wollin, wolne, wowne (“woollen”), Dutch wollen (“woollen”), German wollen (“woollen”), Danish uldne (“woollen”), Norwegian Bokmål ullen (“fuzzy; woolen”).

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