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A blazer is a lightweight, unlined, often flannel jacket originally worn for boating and playing cricket, now worn by British school children and sportsmen. Blazers are often either plain or striped and are worn with non-matching trousers. Blazers are produced both for women, with a more pronounced cut and fit, and for men.
Originally, a blazer was a boatman's jacket, and in particular the jackets worn by the Johanian crew of Cambridge, which were bright scarlet in colour.
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Flannel is a woollen fabric of loose texture and various degrees of fineness, much used as a clothing both in hot and cold countries from its properties of promoting insensible perspiration, which is absorbed and carried off by the atmosphere. Welsh flannels attained a high reputation. In traditional flannel shirtings the wool was frequently mixed with silk, linen, and cotton.
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Flannelette is a light cotton fabric, made in imitation of flannel, having a longish nap, often used as a material for underclothing. It readily catches fire, and has caused many serious accidents. The name is, however, sometimes given to a very soft flannel.
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A garibaldi was a men's or woman's loose, bright red coloured blouse or shirt with long sleeves, a collar, and fastening down the front with buttons or toggles, sometimes belted, but always with a military flavour. Garibaldis were popular in the 1850's and 1860's for both children and adults, and were copied from the red flannel shirt worn by Garibaldi's soldiers.
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Dicky is British slang for shaky, insecure, faulty.
Dicky is British slang for a detachable shirt front, a false shirt.
Dicky is British slang for an old shirt.
Dicky is British slang for a clip-on bow-tie.
Dicky is British slang for the penis.
Dicky is British slang for unwell.
Dicky is British naval slang for a ship's officer.
Dicky was 18th century slang for a flannel petticoat.
Dicky was old slang for a donkey.
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Flannel is slang for nonsense.
Flannel is British slang for small bribes or flattery.
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Four by two is London Cockney rhyming slang for Jew.
Four by two was British army Second World War slang for a piece of white flannel cloth, 4 inches by two inches, used for cleaning rifle and machine-gun bores.
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Red flannel is British slang for the tongue.
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Soap and flannel is London Cockney rhyming slang for panel.
Soap and flannel was early 20th century slang for sickness benefit (the panel).
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