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noun
Thick coarse heavily napped wool mostly (formerly) used in Scandinavia and parts of Britain in winter clothing for the poor, similar to melton.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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History
From Middle English wadmal, wadmol, from Old Norse váðmál (“woolen stuff”), from váð (“cloth”) + mál (“measure”). Cognate to Danish vadmel, Swedish vadmal, Norwegian Nynorsk vadmål and Icelandic vaðmál. Compare wad (“a small mass”) and woodmeil.
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