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Etymology
From Middle English flees, from Old English flēos, from Proto-West Germanic *fleus.
Pronunciation
Noun
flaase
- fleece
1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 106:Na speen to be multh, nar flaase to be shaure.- no teat to be milked, nor fleece to be shorn.
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 40