Fleece, subst. 1) the wool shorn from a sheep at once: As II, 4, 79. H6C II, 5, 37. V, 6, 8. Figuratively: “I would you had won the f. that he hath lost,” Merch. III, 2, 245.
2) the skin of a sheep covered with wool: “with her own white f. her voice controlled,” Lucr. 678. “the golden f.” Merch. I, 1, 170. III, 2, 244. the Golden F. the highest order of knighthood in Burgundy: H6A IV, 7, 69.
3) curled hair: “ere beauty's dead f. made another gay,” Sonn. 68, 8. “my f of woolly hair,” Tit. II, 3, 34.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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