Wool vs Ferrandine - What's the difference?
wool | ferrandine |
The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
* 2006 , Nigel Guy Wilson, Ancient Greece , page 692
A cloth or yarn made from the wool of sheep.
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Anything with a texture like that of wool.
* 1975 , Anthony Julian Huxley, Plant and Planet , page 223
A fine fiber obtained from the leaves of certain trees, such as firs and pines.
(obsolete) Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.
* Shakespeare
(British, NZ) yarn (including that which is made from synthetic fibers.)
A stuff made of silk and wool.
* (Samuel Pepys)
As a proper noun wool
is a village in dorset, england.As a noun ferrandine is
a stuff made of silk and wool.wool
English
Noun
(en-noun)- The sheep were caught and plucked, because shears had not yet been invented to cut the wool from the sheep's back.
- The groundsels have leaves covered in wool for insulation
- wool of bat and tongue of dog
Coordinate terms
* (hair of sheep) goathair, horsehair, qiviutHyponyms
* (cloth or yarn) felt, tweed, worstedDerived terms
* andalusian wool * breech wool * burry wool * cotton wool * dead pulled wool * dyed in the wool * fleece wool * glass wool * ice wool * mineral wool * much cry and little wool * pull the wool over somebody's eyes * rag wool * scoured wool * seed wool * Shetland wool * shorn wool * steel wool * thibet wool * virgin wool * warm as wool * waste of wool * wire wool * wool grease * wool oil * woolgathering * woollen, woolly * woolly, woolySee also
* (wikipedia "wool")ferrandine
English
Noun
(en noun)- I did buy a coloured silk ferrandine .