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noun

Linen n.

Thread or cloth made of flax or (rarely) of hemp; used in a general sense to include cambric, shirting, sheeting, towels, tablecloths, etc.; as, bed linens "In linen white as milk."

Underclothing, esp. the shirt, as being, in former times, chiefly made of linen.

Linen draper, a dealer in linen.

Linen prover, a small microscope for counting the threads in a given space in linen fabrics.

Linen scroll, Linen pattern (Arch.), an ornament for filling panels, copied from the folds of a piece of stuff symmetrically disposed.

adjective

Linen adj.

Made of linen; as, linen cloth; a linen stocking.

Resembling linen cloth; white; pale.

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Etymology of 'Linen'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Linen" Quotes from Famous Books

... not know what to make of Katie. She was wearing a linen suit which had vague suggestions of the world, the flesh, and the devil. She had selected it that morning with considerable care. Likewise the shoes! And the angle of the quill in Katie's hat stirred in him the ...

— The Visioning • Susan Glaspell

... carried effigies carved out of gold or silver as safeguards against disease, or applied those made out of certain other materials, as the mandragora root or linen or wood, to the diseased part as a cure of physical infirmities. Some of these images were carried over into Christianity, for in Charlemagne's time, headache was frequently cured by following the saintly recommendation to shape the figure ...

— Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing • George Barton Cutten

... a different thing," and Elizabeth laid down the piece of linen she was stitching and looked up at the handsome fellow who was leaning against the open window and puffing his cigar smoke out of it. She had the English girl's adoration of the eldest son, and likewise her natural submission to the ...

— A Singer from the Sea • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

... stalls. Boots, straw hats and Salvation bonnets, ribbons, kerchiefs, books and engravings. There was even a reduced household selling off all their worldly goods, lamps, chairs, prayer-books, kettles, crocks, linen—and a spinning-wheel. I looked lovingly, longingly at that spinning-wheel, and might have bought it for a franc and a half, and would have done so, had I not been encumbered with the hurdy-gurdy. ...

— In Troubadour-Land - A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc • S. Baring-Gould

... have it. I was going to slip it in my pocket when I was called to the 'phone. Look here, here's the impression of it in the handkerchiefs," and Dunk pointed to a round depression in the pile of soft linen squares. It was just the shape ...

— Andy at Yale - The Great Quadrangle Mystery • Roy Eliot Stokes

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