wadmal

or wad·maal, wad·mel, wad·mol, wad·moll

[ wod-muhl ]

noun

1. a bulky woolen fabric woven of coarse yarn and heavily napped, formerly much used in England and Scandinavia for the manufacture of durable winter garments.

wadmal

/ ˈwɒdməl /

noun

1. a coarse thick woollen fabric, formerly woven esp in Orkney and Shetland, for outer garments

Word History and Origins

Origin of wadmal¹

1350–1400; Middle English < Old Norse vathmāl, equivalent to vāth cloth (cognate with Old English wæd; weed ² ) + māl measure ( piecemeal )

Word History and Origins

Origin of wadmal¹

C14: from Old Norse vathmal, from vath cloth + mal measure

Example Sentences

His companions were two strong broad-shouldered fellows, with red wadmal cloaks, over dirty leathern breeches, and with broad swords and daggers in their thickly padded belts, which also appeared to serve them as purses.

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The Laplander keeps on his fur, the Russian his wadded garment, the Tartar his sheep-skin, the Shetlander goes about in his house in his wadmal.

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He didn't care about the sodden wadmal breeks and tunic that hung around his skin.

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“Her kirtle is of kid-skin made,    Her mantle of wadmal grey, Her locks, which shine like gleamy gold,    Adown her shoulders stray.” p. 23Then he rode o’er the meadows green,    And through the brake and thorn, And there did he the maiden find,    She drove her goats from the corn.

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Under his tent of coarse wadmal cloth the travellers found shelter, and such rude hospitality as the poor Lap could afford them—in return for which they had to live in the midst of a smoke that nearly put out their eyes.

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