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English
Etymology 1
From lamb + -s- + wool.
Noun
lambswool (countable and uncountable, plural lambswools)
- (uncountable) Wool from a lamb.
- (by extension, countable) Something made of wool from a lamb.
Etymology 2
Said to be a corruption of an earlier lamasool or La Maes Abhal, "Day of the Apple Fruit", a festival to a pagan goddess.
Noun
lambswool
- A festive drink of ale mixed with the pulp of roasted apples.
- 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 82-85,
- Well Masters if you will eate nothing take away: Come, what doo we to passe away the time? Lay a crab in the fire to rost for Lambes-wooll
French
Noun
lambswool m (plural lambswools)
- lambswool (wool)