Woolward

To go woolward was to wear woollen next to the skin as a penance. "Woolward and wetshod went I forth." [William Langland's Piers Plowman, c 1399] - William Toone's Glossary and Etymological Dictionary of Obsolete Words, 1832
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Published on February 12, 2011 06:30
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