A board covered with flannel fabric, used in teaching and storytelling to hold cut-out figures that stick to the surface.
English compound of 'flannel' plus 'board,' combining the material name with the object it describes.
Flannelboards were the interactive technology of the 1950s—before screens existed, teachers used fabric-backed cutouts on fuzzy boards to tell stories, and children thought they were magic.
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