Crimean flannel

English Noun ~ en uncountable A type of flannel material used to make Crimean shirts. en countable A Crimean shirt. en 1887 Harriet W. Daly Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia 161 His shirt, an ordinary Crimean flannel, was exquisitely clean, and outside the "lean-to" another was drying on a bush.