worsted
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He often mixed silk and wool or silk and linen for a softer alternative to the heavy, stiff gabardines and worsted wools that were typical for men’s suits and jackets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2025
Rolls upon rolls of flannel, worsted wool and cashmere are stacked in a space the size of a football field.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 20, 2017
She took photographs and wrote poetry; in 1938, The New York Times published her ode to “a day for dreaming in the sun, for telling worsted tales, for languid ease.”
From New York Times ● May 26, 2016
It's made at Alfred Brown worsted mills, a century-old family business in Bramley in Leeds.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2016
One more man stood on the porch, dressed in a worsted plaid vest and gray trousers.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
