Meaning

(uncountable) A soft cloth material originally woven from wool, today often combined with cotton or synthetic fibers..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) A soft cloth material originally woven from wool, today often combined with cotton or synthetic fibers.
2. (New Zealand, British, countable) A washcloth.
3. (US, countable) A flannel shirt.
4. (slang, uncountable) Soothing, plausible untruth or half-truth; claptrap.
5. (UK, obsolete) Synonym of flip (“hot mixture of beer, spirit, etc.”).
6. Made of flannel.
7. (transitive) To rub with a flannel.
8. (transitive) To wrap in flannel.

Example Sentences

With the weather turning colder, it was time to dig out our flannel sheets and nightclothes.

First singer and guitarist Marcus Mumford, wearing a black suit, then bassist Ted Dwane, in leather bomber and T-shirt. Next bearded banjo player Winston Marshall, his blue flannel shirt hanging loose, and pianist Ben Lovett, wrapped in a woollen coat.

There’s a communal memory of [Kurt] Cobain’s wearing flannel in this video, and that this image was the dawn of grunge fashion.

"The Witch of Endor was a fool to her, sir: bless you, she would make no more of raising every gentleman in the Bible out of these here beastly tombs than I should of growing cress on an old flannel."

Don't talk flannel!

I got a little cross and asked him to stop flannelling and to tell me what was holding me back. Were my annual assessments below par? Was there something I had done – or not done?

Word Forms

• flannels
• flannen
• flanan
• flanning
• flanen
• flanneling
• flannelling
• flanneled
• flannelled

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Use flannel when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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