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Wincey   Listen
noun
Wincey  n.  Linsey-woolsey.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Wincey" Quotes from Famous Books



... water, had been her first impression on her arrival the previous night. She had turned when they reached the candle-lit attic with its high uncurtained windows and red-covered box beds, and standing on the one strip of matting in her full-skirted grey wincey dress with its neat triple row of black ribbon velvet near the hem, had shown Miriam steel-blue eyes smiling from a little triangular sprite-like face under a high-standing pouf of soft dark hair, and said, "Voila!" Miriam had never imagined anything in the least like her. ...
— Pointed Roofs - Pilgrimage, Volume 1 • Dorothy Richardson

... Elizabeth, Eppie came running up the path. She was barefooted, as Eppie always was except on Sundays, and wore a coarse, gray wincey dress and a big apron. Poor Eppie's clothes were all much too large for her, for the little girl had no woman's deft hand to dress her. She shyly slipped past the boys and took hold of Elizabeth's hand. Her big, pathetic eyes shone with joy. "Oh, Lizzie, I'll ...
— 'Lizbeth of the Dale • Marian Keith



Words linked to "Wincey" :   cloth, Great Britain, UK, material, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, fabric



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