A dense, plain woven cloth, usually made of cotton or a cotton blend.
A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men’s garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half); so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.
A soft cloth material originally woven from wool, today often combined with cotton or synthetic fibers.
A washcloth.
Soothing, plausible untruth or half-truth; claptrap.
A flannel shirt.
Made of flannel.
To flatter; to suck up to.
To wrap in flannel.
To waffle or prevaricate.
To rub with a flannel.