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lambswool en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
Etymology
From lamb + -s- + wool.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The wool of a lamb.
They sponge up the blood with lambswool, dipped in milk.
1980 February 16, Kore J. Sapphire, “The Politics of Valentines”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 29, page 11:
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(broadly, countable) A textile or garment made of wool from a lamb.
Forms
Coordinates
sheepswool · sheepswool
Hypernyms
woolen · wool
lambswool en · NOUN · etymology 2
Pronunciation
Etymology
Probably identical to Etymology 1, referring to the layer of froth that is produced in making the drink, though starting with Charles Vallancey in 1786, historically supposed to be a corruption of an earlier lamasool or La Maes Abhal "Day of the Apple Fruit" (corresponding to Irish lá measa abhla).
Meanings
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A festive drink of ale mixed with the pulp of roasted apples.
1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 82-85,
Well Masters if you will eate nothing take away: Come, what doo we to passe away the time? Lay a crab in the fire to rost for Lambes-wooll […]
wikipedia: Charles Vallancey