wool-dyed

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English

Adjective

wool-dyed (not comparable)

  1. Dyed before being made into cloth, in distinction from piece-dyed.
  2. (figuratively) Dyed in the wool; set in one's ways; steadfast.
    • 1868, Henry Mills Alden, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      a wool-dyed Baptist

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for wool-dyed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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