Crimean flannel

English

Noun

Crimean flannel (countable and uncountable, plural Crimean flannels)

1. (uncountable) A type of flannel material used to make Crimean shirts.
2. (countable) A Crimean shirt.
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 161:

     His shirt, an ordinary Crimean flannel, was exquisitely clean, and outside the "lean-to" another was drying on a bush.