different between flannel vs facetowel

English

Alternative forms

• flannen (dialectal)
• flanan, flanning, flanen (Scotland)

Etymology

From Middle English flaunneol, from Anglo-Norman flanelle (compare Norman flianné), diminutive of Old French flaine, floene (“coarse wool”), from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *wl?nos, *wlan? (“wool”) (compare Welsh gwlân, Breton gloan), from Proto-Indo-European *h?w??h?neh?. More at wool.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?flæn?l/
• Rhymes: -æn?l
• Hyphenation: flan?nel

Noun

flannel (countable and uncountable, plural flannels)

1. (uncountable) A soft cloth material originally woven from wool, today often combined with cotton or synthetic fibers.

   With the weather turning colder, it was time to dig out our flannel sheets and nightclothes.

   • 2012, Tom Lamont, How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world (in The Daily Telegraph, 15 November 2012)[1]

     First singer and guitarist Marcus Mumford, wearing a black suit, then bassist Ted Dwane, in leather bomber and T-shirt. Next bearded banjo player Winston Marshall, his blue flannel shirt hanging loose, and pianist Ben Lovett, wrapped in a woollen coat.

2. (New Zealand, Australia, Britain, countable) A washcloth.
3. (US, countable) A flannel shirt.
4. (slang, uncountable) Soothing, plausible untruth or half-truth; claptrap.

   Don't talk flannel!

Derived terms

Descendants

• Chinese:
  • ? Mandarin: ??? (f?lánróng)
• ? Danish: flannel
• ? French: flanelle (see there for further descendants)
• ? Japanese: ????? (furaneru)

Translations

Adjective

flannel (not comparable)

1. Made of flannel.

Translations

Verb

flannel (third-person singular simple present flannels, present participle flanneling or flannelling, simple past and past participle flanneled or flannelled)

1. (transitive) To rub with a flannel.
2. (transitive) To wrap in flannel.
3. (transitive) To flatter; to suck up to.

Anagrams

• fannell

Danish

Etymology

From English flannel. Cognate to flonel and to Welsh gwlân (“wool”).

Noun

flannel

1. soft, slightly scratched woven fabric made of wool

References

• “flannel” in Den Danske Ordbog