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Fleece

noun

The wool of a sheep or similar animal.

Tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on; used for clothing. Synonym: sheepskin.

A soft bulky fabric with deep pile; used chiefly for clothing.

Outer coat of especially sheep and yaks. Synonym: wool.

verb

(past & past part. fleeced; pres. part. fleecing)

Rip off; ask an unreasonable price. Synonyms: gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge.

Shear the wool from. Synonym: shear.

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... following has surprised us. The first purpose of Clothes, as our Professor imagines, was not warmth or decency, but ornament. "Miserable indeed," says he, "was the condition of the Aboriginal Savage, glaring fiercely from under his fleece of hair, which with the beard reached down to his loins, and hung round him like a matted cloak; the rest of his body sheeted in its thick natural fell. He loitered in the sunny glades of the forest, living on wild-fruits; ...

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... But he covered himself with ridicule at this game of private intrigue rather than real diplomatic negotiation; and, notwithstanding all the trouble he took, he obtained nothing by it, "the gratitude of Madame des Ursins excepted, who made Philip V. give him the Golden Fleece, the rank of grandee, the Walloon company of the bodyguard—everything, in fact, he ...

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