a. [f. as prec. + -LY1.] Characteristic or of the nature of flannel; flannel-like. Also fig. (In quot. 1842 quasi-adv.)
c. 1839. Landor, 2nd. Convers. Southey & Landor, Wks. 1846, II. 174/1. After witnessing his glorious ascension, we are destined to lower our foreheads over the dreary hydropathy and flanelly voices of the swathed and sinewless.
1842. Bischoff, Woollen Manuf. (1862), II. 148. It [the wool] works more flannelly.
1889. H. A. Dodds, Rep. Paris Exhib., 5. The sooty ‘flannelly’ appearance of the manipulation in some of the exhibits.
