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flanneled

flanneled

5.5
Wearing or covered with soft warm cloth used for shirts and blankets
  • adjective
  • /ˈflænəld/
  • US
translation icon : de franela
  • The baby slept soundly in his flanneled pajamas, snuggled under a warm blanket.

Examples

  • The cozy, flanneled jacket kept him warm during the chilly autumn evenings.

  • Oh, who knows what's going on in their chowdered heads, John, All I do know is every four years these be flanneled Granite Staters.

  • She wore a flanneled shirt that felt soft against her skin.

Antonyms

bare
217 2.2

Not covered or protected, showing the plain surface

Surface Forms

flanneled positive
flanneled positive

Morphology

flanneled = flannel (transparent) = flannel + ed

Formed by the productive adjectival use of '-ed' on the noun 'flannel' meaning 'covered with or made of flannel', which is directly inferable.

Etymology

Flanneled comes from flannel, a soft cloth whose name comes from a Welsh word gwlanen meaning 'woollen'. So think 'wool' or 'blanket' to remember that flanneled means wearing or covered with warm, soft flannel.