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• n  a rough fabric of linen warp and wool or cotton woof

• Hannah Duston is not the heroic protector of white womanhood and the family but the great castrating mother of all mena Mary Worth in linsey-woolsey.
• Although he once taught public speaking, he is only a middling-fair speakera quiet man who hides a sharp intellect under the linsey-woolsey coat of an upstate countryman.
• They talk of the wives of pioneers making linsey-woolsey dresses and men chopping down trees, but they omit things like the Monroe Doctrine.