merino
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"The blue face Leicester fleece, which is our closest to the merino, that will go into knitwear like men's suits."
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
If you haven’t heard of Allbirds, picture the first time you learned that merino wool is surprisingly soft and breathable for socks.
From Barron's ● Apr. 16, 2026
Its Wool Runner shoe, made from merino wool, helped draw attention on social media.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 31, 2026
So he decided to rebuild his shorts and underwear drawer, swapping out garments made from polyester-based fabrics to ones crafted from materials such as organic cotton and merino wool.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
The pastures, a lush new green, were dotted with merino sheep and fat milk cows.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
“The lambs appear to display the body wrinkle that was common in merinos in the middle of last century, a feature originally selected to maximise skin surface area and wool yields.”
From The Guardian ● Mar. 18, 2019
It races past nickel, lead and gold mines, flocks of fleecy merinos, smelters, slag heaps, ports and forests.
From Time Magazine Archive
During the next ten years the price of wool continued so low that nearly all the flocks of merinos were broken up, or deteriorated through careless breeding.
From Vermont A Study of Independence by Rowland E. (Evans) Robinson
He had entire charge of a flock of 1,700 merinos.
From Two Years in Oregon by Wallis Nash
The merinos constitute the principal and characteristic race of the United States; and this is the most important fact in the enumeration of our resources for sheep husbandry and the wool manufacture.
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