merino
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"The blue face Leicester fleece, which is our closest to the merino, that will go into knitwear like men's suits."
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
If you haven’t heard of Allbirds, picture the first time you learned that merino wool is surprisingly soft and breathable for socks.
From Barron's ● Apr. 16, 2026
Its Wool Runner shoe, made from merino wool, helped draw attention on social media.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 31, 2026
The Bwarm Organic Wool Multi-Zone Pro Heated Mattress Pad has an Australian merino top that feels great against the skin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
The pastures, a lush new green, were dotted with merino sheep and fat milk cows.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
“The lambs appear to display the body wrinkle that was common in merinos in the middle of last century, a feature originally selected to maximise skin surface area and wool yields.”
From The Guardian ● Mar. 18, 2019
It races past nickel, lead and gold mines, flocks of fleecy merinos, smelters, slag heaps, ports and forests.
From Time Magazine Archive
When servants wore mob-caps and ginghams, mistresses wore muslins and merinos, and were passing fine with one good silk dress.
From Maids Wives and Bachelors by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
He had entire charge of a flock of 1,700 merinos.
From Two Years in Oregon by Wallis Nash
Of the above number of sheep, only 308,652 are merinos.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
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