cotton flannel

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   a stout cotton fabric with nap on only one side

   SynonymsCanton flannel

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Questions about cotton flannel

What does cotton flannel mean?

cotton flannel means "a stout cotton fabric with nap on only one side".

What is another word for cotton flannel?

Close synonyms include Canton flannel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cotton flannel a common word?

cotton flannel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.