Flannel, a soft nappy stuff of wool; ludicrously used to designate a Welshman: “I am not able to answer the Welsh f.” Wiv. V, 5, 172 (Wales being famous for the manufacture of it).
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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