Wolsey

PASS: Had with him a beaver hat, light grey linsey-wolsey jacket, two trowsers, new pumps, and an old purple coloured waist coat. ❋ Various (N/A)

Had on when she went away, a blue linsey-wolsey gown, a dark brown petticoat, and a Bath bonnet. ❋ Various (N/A)

What myriads of young faces have grown old over worsted parrots and linsey-wolsey maps of the terrestrial globe! ❋ Various (N/A)

But the bride of the pioneer was clothed in linsey-wolsey, with hose of woollen yarn; and moccasins of deer-skin -- or as an extra piece of finery, high-quartered shoes of calf-skin -- preceded satin slippers. ❋ J. L. McConnel (N/A)

Linsey-wolsey began to give place to calicoes and many-colored prints; calf-skin shoes were antiquated by the use of kid; and ribands fluttered gracefully upon new-fashioned bonnets. ❋ J. L. McConnel (N/A)

Let Henry the Fifth have his Agincourt; let him, in history, sit upon a throne of Frenchmen's skulls; our LAZARUS THE FIRST shall heal the wounds of wretchedness -- shall gather bloodless laurels in the hospital and workhouse -- his ermine and purple shall make fellowship with rags of linsey-wolsey -- he shall be a king enthroned and worshipped in the hearts of the indigent! ❋ Charles Larcom (1921)

"The trail of the serpent is over us all," the golden calf has become our supreme god, and even in the South it now matters much whether a woman seeking justice be clothed in gowns of Worth or linsey-wolsey. ❋ Unknown (1905)

I done got down on my knees an 'prayed for God ter send me linsey-wolsey clothes so I won't have rheumatiz an' aint none come. ❋ Unknown (1905)

A reversible crimson and black striped linsey-wolsey under a white cambric skirt, with five, seven, or nine tucks of handsome work, not less than ten or twelve inches deep. ❋ Unknown (1905)

To go to field-labor in seven petticoats can be anything but convenient or agreeable, but it is the traditionally correct thing, and a German peasant girl would think herself as unfavorably conspicuous in an untraditional costume as an English servant-girl would now think herself in a “linsey-wolsey” apron or a thick muslin cap. ❋ George Eliot (1849)

She usually wore a thick linsey-wolsey gown, with enormous pockets on either side, and, like Nora Creina's, it certainly inflicted no undue restrictions upon her charms, but left ❋ Charles James Lever (1839)

(linsey-wolsey, I think was his term too), I may be looked upon as an original in my way; and all originals pass well enough, you know, Madam, even with judges. ❋ Unknown (2006)

_mode_ of the forest: its dye a favorite "Tennessean" brownish-yellow; and the women were not ashamed to be seen in linsey-wolsey, woven in the same domestic loom. ❋ J. L. McConnel (N/A)

Lambourne, looking at the gateway and gate, “if this fellow’s suspicious humour should refuse us admission altogether, as it is like he may, in case this linsey-wolsey fellow of a mercer’s visit to his premises has disquieted him. ❋ Unknown (2004)

a waist and plainly clad in untrimmed linsey-wolsey, who was speaking authoritatively to a hysterical-looking young girl, upon whose narrow shoulder she rested a heavy, fat-fingered hand as she walked. ❋ Robert Smythe Hichens (1907)

"What's de reason?" asked an old darky of me during Reconstruction days, "dat de Yankees caint make linsey-wolsey like ole Mistis did in de ole time? ❋ Unknown (1905)

"We shall be finely helped up here," said Michael Lambourne, looking at the gateway and gate, "if this fellow's suspicious humour should refuse us admission altogether, as it is like he may, in case this linsey-wolsey fellow of a mercer's visit to his premises has disquieted him. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

There’s the Wolsey [family] ❋ (2020)

"That [fella] is acting a bit funny [ain't] he?" "Thats because he has that [carnival wolsey]." ❋ Tricko (2008)