[f. prec. sb.] trans. a. To wrap in flannel. b. To rub with flannel.

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1836–9.  Dickens, Sk. Boz, Our Parish, vi. The children were yellow-soaped and flannelled, and towelled, till their faces shone again. Ibid., Tales, i. The second-floor front was scrubbed, and washed, and flannelled, till the wet went through to the drawing room ceiling.

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  Hence Flannelled ppl. a.

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1784.  J. Belknap, Belknap Papers (1877), I. 383. She knows what it is to tend a flannelled pair of legs and hands, and even to lift 180 or 190 lbs. of mortality from a bed to a chair, and back again.

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a. 1845.  Hood, To Grimaldi, i.

        Joseph! they say thou’st left the stage,
  To toddle down the hill of life,
And taste the flannell’d ease of age,
  Apart from pantomimic strife.

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