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Fleece

noun

The wool of a sheep or similar animal.

Tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on; used for clothing. Synonym: sheepskin.

A soft bulky fabric with deep pile; used chiefly for clothing.

Outer coat of especially sheep and yaks. Synonym: wool.

verb

(past & past part. fleeced; pres. part. fleecing)

Rip off; ask an unreasonable price. Synonyms: gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge.

Shear the wool from. Synonym: shear.

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"Fleece" Quotes from Famous Books

... respected by European powers; and reliant upon the kingship of cotton inducing early recognition, both believed that the ships of England and France—disregarding the impotent paper closure—would soon crowd southern wharves and exchange the royal fleece for the luxuries, no less than the ...

— Four Years in Rebel Capitals - An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death • T. C. DeLeon

... Aeson from his kingdom in Thessaly, and had determined to take the life of Jason, the son of Aeson. Jason, however, escaped and grew up to manhood in another country. At last he returned to Thessaly; and Pelias, fearing that he might attempt to recover the kingdom, sent him to fetch the Golden Fleece from Colchis, supposing this to be an impossible feat. Jason with a band of heroes set sail in the ship Argo (called after Argus, its builder), and after many adventures reached Colchis. Here Aetes, king of Colchis, who was unwilling to give up the Fleece, set Jason to ...

— Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles - A First Latin Reader • John Kirtland, ed.

... replied his companion; "but since we see so clearly the fox's foot and paws protruding from beneath the seeming sheep's fleece, or rather, by your leave, the bear's hide yonder, had we not better be jogging homeward, ere it be pretended we ...

— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott

... their feet dangling. There were smiling masks, like men beheaded and smiling in their death. Near the base of the Tree there was a drum. And all over the Tree from pinnacle to base glittered a tinsel like golden fleece—looking as the moss of old Southern trees seen ...

— Bride of the Mistletoe • James Lane Allen

... falling either in hopeless sheets or more hopeless drizzle. The occasions upon which this was a dreary truth blotted out or blurred the exceptions, when in liquid ultramarine deeps of sky, floated islands and mountains of snow-white fleece, of a beauty of which she had before had ...

— The Shuttle • Frances Hodgson Burnett

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