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Definition: Flannel |
FlannelNoun1. A soft light woolen fabric; used for clothing. 2. Bath linen consisting of a piece of cloth used to wash the face and body. 3. (usually in the plural) trousers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "flannel" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references) |
Synonyms: FlannelSynonyms: face cloth (n), gabardine (n), tweed (n), washcloth (n), washrag (n), white (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Calefaction | Furnace; blanket, flannel, fur; wadding. (lining); clothing . |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Flannel |
| English words defined with "flannel": Flanneled, flannelette, Flannen, Ftiction ♦ Garibaldi, gray, grayish, grey, greyish ♦ Herringbone stitch, Hippocrates' sleeve ♦ Opera flannel ♦ Swan's-down cotton, Swanskin ♦ Welsh flannel. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "flannel": blanket washer ♦ casha ♦ Herring-bone ♦ salisbury white, SIEVE MAKER. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "flannel": Flannen. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Flannel" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (flannel). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | A girl can't get married in flannel! (Runaway Bride; writing credit: Josann McGibbon; Sara Parriott) May I suggest, that it is extremely difficult for a man, in a gray flannel suit, to behave naturally, while riding on a horse in the middle of the night, waiting for someone to shoot at you (The Holcroft Covenant; writing credit: Edward Anhalt; George Axelrod) | |
Lyrics | Living a gray flannel life (Lady Marmalade; performing artist: Christina Aguilera) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit (1968) Blonde in Blue Flannel (1995) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Photographed on board ship, probably at the time of the Vera Cruz incident, circa April 1914. These sailors are wearing Marine Corps flannel shirts and khaki trousers, with dyed "white hats". They are posing with M1903 "Springfield" rifles and at least one man is wearing an ammunition belt. The ship may be USS South Carolina (BB-26). Credit: NAVY. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | One was clasping about his ribs a torn flannel waistcoat, another complained monotonously as his beard stuck in the tufted weeds |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The man who had got out of the car was dressed in khaki trousers and a flannel shirt |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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Business | An overwhelming majority claimed that they most often use bed linen made from cotton, linen, and flannel (in winter). (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Flannel" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.24% of the time. "Flannel" is used about 181 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.24% | 176 | 23,410 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.76% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 181 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "flannel": Adam's flannel ♦ Canton flannel ♦ Cotton flannel ♦ face flannel ♦ flannel bush ♦ Flannel flower ♦ flannel leaf ♦ flannel mullein ♦ opera flannel ♦ vegetable flannel ♦ water flannel ♦ welsh flannel. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "flannel": flannel-like, flannel-mouthed, flannel-wearing. | |
Ending with "flannel": gray-flannel, grey-flannel. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "flannel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fanellatë (flannelette), fanellë (singlet), stof leshi i butë, shtupë për t'u larë, prej fanellate (flannelette), gjepura (apple sauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blether, boloney, bosh, bunco, buncombe, bunk, bunko, claptrap, crap, drivel, drool, eyewash, fiddledeedee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flam, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, galimatias, gammon, hog-wash, hokum, humbug, jazz, jiggery pokery, moonshine, nonsense, palaver, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, stuff and nonsense, taradiddle, tosh, trash, twaddle, vacuity, waffle, wish-wash). (various references) | |
Arabic | ملابس تحتية من الفانيلا, الفلانيلة, بنطلون خفيف. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | фланелен парцал, фланелен, мек вълнен плат (fleece, swan-skin), бархет (flannelette, velveteen). (various references) | |
Chinese | 絨布 , 法'. (various references) | |
Czech | flanel. (various references) | |
Danish | flonel. (various references) | |
Dutch | flanellen, flanel. (various references) | |
Esperanto | flanelo, flanela. (various references) | |
Finnish | flanelli. (various references) | |
French | flanelle (flannelled). (various references) | |
German | flanell, Flannel. (various references) | |
Greek | χνουδωτό ύφασμα, φλανέλλα, φανέλλα, φανέλα (jumper, shirt, vest). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מטלית (cloth, duster, mop, patch, rag, swab), פל ל. (various references) | |
Hungarian | flanel, szemfényvesztés (abuse, eye-wash, hanky panky, hanky-panky, lath and plaster, legerdemain, prestidigitation), portörlő (house flannel), porrongy (dust cloth, duster, house flannel), porhintés (claptrap, eye-wash, mockery), padlóruha (house flannel), mosdókesztyű (facecloth, rubbing-glove, washcloth), kasa (kasha), gyapjúkasa. (various references) | |
Indonesian | flanel. (various references) | |
Italian | flanella. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | フランス" (FC, flamberge, flick, franchise, franchise chain, freak, free, free agent, free dial, free kick, free sex, free skating, free talking, free tax, free throw, free time, free trade, free weights, freedom, freesia, free-software, freestyle, freeware, freeway, freeze, freeze-dry, freezer, French, French window, frieze, one size fits all, one whose livelihood is provided by part-time work, refrigerator, toll-free number, young people subsisting on part-time work), フラクション活動 (flag, flap, flap pocket, flapper, flash, flashback, flashlight, flask, flat, flat collar, flat race, flush, fractal, fraction activity, fragment, fragmentation, frappe, fresco, frustration, hula dance, news flash). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | フラノ , フランネル . (various references) | |
Manx | fledjyn (face-cloth). (various references) | |
Norwegian | flanell. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | annelflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | flanela (box cloth). (various references) | |
Romanian | flanelã (felt, flannelette, singlet, sweater), flanel, linguşire (adulation, apple sauce, blandishment, butter, cajolement, cajolery, cringing, fawning, flattering, flattery, slaver, soap, toad-eating), linguşi (blandish, butter, cajole, coax, flatter, jolly, palaver, toady, wheedle), lenjerie de corp din flanelã, de flanelã. (various references) | |
Russian | фланель фланелевый, фланель (fustian), фланелевый (fustian), брюки из фланели. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | flanelski (flannelette), flanel (flannelette). (various references) | |
Spanish | franela. (various references) | |
Swedish | flanell. (various references) | |
Turkish | flanelden yapılmış giysi, flanel, fanila ile ovmak, fanila giydirmek, fanila (singlet, undershirt, undervest, vest), zevzeklik etmek (mug, spoon), zevzeklik (quack, silliness). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | фланель (fustian). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | quần áo lót bằng flanen, quần áo flanen, các loại vải flanen, bằng flanen, đ" bằng flanen. (various references) | |
Welsh | gwlanen. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "flannel": flanneled, flannelette, flannelettes, flanneling, flannelled, flannelling, flannelly, flannelmouthed, flannels. (additional references) | |
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"Flannel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Clannel, flane, flanel, flann, Flanner, flannol, flannoll, flanonel, flaune. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "flannel" (pronounced fla"nul) |
| 4 | -a" n u l | annal, annul, channel, empanel, impanel, panel. |
| 3 | -n u l | infernal, abdominal, aberrational, aboriginal, additional, adrenal, anal, Arsenal, atonal, attitudinal, autumnal, binational, biphenyl, cantonal, Cardinal, carnal, coeducational, collisional, Colonel, communal, compositional, computational, concessional, conditional, confessional, conformational, confrontational, congregational, congressional, connotational, constitutional, conventional, conversational, cornel, correctional, criminal, Darnel, delusional, denominational, departmental, depositional, devotional, diagonal, dimensional, directional, diurnal, divisional, doctrinal, duodenal, dysfunctional, educational, emotional, erosional, eternal, exceptional, external, factional, faunal, fennel, fictional, final, fluxional, foundational, fractional, fraternal, functional, funnel, gastrointestinal, generational, gravitational, hexagonal, hormonal, Hymnal, impersonal, improvisational, spinal, subliminal, superregional, supranational, terminal, informational, inspirational, institutional, instructional, intentional, intergenerational, internal, international, interpersonal, intestinal, investigational, Invitational, irrational, journal, jurisdictional, juvenile, kennel, kernel, latitudinal, longitudinal, luminal, marginal, maternal, medicinal, monoclonal, monsoonal, morainal, motivational, multinational, national, navigational, nocturnal, nominal, noncriminal, nonprofessional, nontraditional, nutritional, obsessional, occasional, occupational, octagonal, operational, optional, organizational, original, paternal, penal, personal, phenomenal, polygonal, polyvinyl, processional, professional, promotional, proportional, provisional, rational, recreational, regional, relational, renal, representational, retinal, rotational, seasonal, sectional, semifinal, seminal, sensational, sentinel, shrapnel, signal, situational, tonal, traditional, transformational, transitional, transnational, tribunal, tunnel, unconditional, unconstitutional, unconventional, unemotional, unintentional, unprofessional, untraditional, vaginal, venal, vernal, Vinal, vinyl, virginal, vocational. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-l-l-n-n" | |
-1 letter: fallen. | |
-2 letters: fella. | |
-3 letters: alef, elan, fall, fane, feal, fell, flan, flea, lane, leaf, leal, lean. | |
-4 letters: ale, all, ane, elf, ell, fan, fen, lea, nae, nan. | |
-5 letters: ae, al, an, ef, el, en, fa, la, na, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-l-l-n-n" | |
+1 letter: flannels, unfallen. | |
+2 letters: flanneled, flannelly. | |
+3 letters: downfallen, flanneling, flannelled, fontanelle, infernally, influenzal. | |
+4 letters: flannelette, flannelling, fontanelles, influential. | |
+5 letters: flannelettes, inflectional, influentials, meaningfully, nonflammable, unlawfulness. | |
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