Wool
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A single page from an early nineteenth-century encyclopaedia entry on wool. It covers the etymology and dictionary senses of wool and related words, with literary quotations (Shakespeare, Dryden, Pope, Swift), and compares wool to hair in growth and shedding. It also describes how fleece is sorted by body part in France, England, and Spain, and names wool regions valued in antiquity.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1829
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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