fleece

• n. ウール、フリース生地；ウール製のカバー
• vt.羊毛を刈る；だまし取る、搾取する
• n.(フリース)人名;(英)Fleece

PIE*weleの「摘み取る」、「フリース」が語源で、ウール、フランネルと同じ。

fleece

fleece: [OE] Fleece comes from a prehistoric Germanic *flūsaz. This probably goes back to an Indo-European *plus-, which also produced Latin plūma ‘down’, later ‘feathers’, and Lithuanian plunksna ‘feather’. The metaphorical sense of the verb, ‘swindle’, developed in the 16th century from the literal ‘remove the fleece from’.
=> plume

fleece (v.)

1530s in the literal sense of "to strip (a sheep) of fleece," from fleece (n.). From 1570s in the figurative meaning "to cheat, swindle, strip of money." Related: Fleeced; fleecer; fleecing.

fleece (n.)

"wool coat of a sheep," Old English fleos, flies "fleece, wool, fur, sealskin," from West Germanic *flusaz (cognates: Middle Dutch vluus, Dutch vlies, Middle High German vlius, German Vlies), which is of uncertain origin; probably from PIE *pleus- "to pluck," also "a feather, fleece" (cognates: Latin pluma "feather, down," Lithuanian plunksna "feather").

1. He was wearing black combat trousers and a hooded fleece .

彼は黒の作戦ズボンとフード付き羊のセーターを着ている。

2.a bright red fleece

真っ赤なパイル生地

3.Michelle will also spin a customer 's wool fleece to specification at a cost of$2.25 an ounce.

ミシェルも顧客の要求に応じて羊毛を紡ぐことができます。1オンスあたり2.25ドルかかります。

4.My warmest coat is lined with fleece .

私の最も暖かいコートには綿毛の裏地があります。

5.With their fleece sopping wet，they huddled in hollows，too dispirited to graze.

毛皮が濡れている状態で、彼らは低い窪地に押し込んで、ブラックベリーの茂みに近づいたり、背風の斜面に隠れたりして、食べ物を探す気持ちがない。