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
“If I were in charge of RFK Jr. I would put him in a nice merino jogger to do his exercise in,” Giri said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
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
Plaids, checks and bars, bright blues, crude violets and hideous crimsons, were seen in French merinos, Irish poplins and English alpacas.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various
Once his merinos and angoras were safe across the line Bud would gladly return and help round them up.
From The Free Range by Douglas Duer
The merinos are considered very voracious, and not very prolific; they yield but little milk, and are very subject to cutaneous diseases.
From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Robert Cochrane
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