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Grammar : Noun
Spell : lin-uh n
Phonetic Transcription : ˈlɪn ən

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Définition of linen

Origin :
  • "cloth from woven flax," early 14c.; earlier as an adjective, "made of flax" (c.1200), from Old English linin (adj.) "made of flax," from lin "flax, linen thread, cloth," from West Germanic *linam (cf. Old Saxon, Old Norse, Old High German lin "flax, linen," German Leinen "linen," Gothic lein "linen cloth"), probably an early borrowing from Latin linum "flax, linen," which, along with Greek linon is from a non-IE language.
  • noun fabric
Example sentences :
  • He was naked save for a linen under shirt and pair of woollen drawers.
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Did she wish to say that she was grateful to him for having helped her in recovering the linen?
  • Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
  • "To seek the linen for the new sheets, but it was not ready," she answered glibly.
  • Extract from : « Fair Margaret » by H. Rider Haggard
  • And the linen I shall deposit, in pursuance of your kind hint, cannot be missed.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • Pick them from the stalks, and squeeze them through a linen bag.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • The other bundled some linen and brushes into the portmanteau.
  • Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
  • He had brought an instrument case, some linen bands and some lint.
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • We went into the great warehouses to get clothes, linen, &c., on credit.
  • Extract from : « Freeland » by Theodor Hertzka
  • Caradoc assented wearily and shifted his shoulder for the band of linen.
  • Extract from : « The Cruise of the Dry Dock » by T. S. Stribling
  • A cooling lotion, applied with linen cloths, must be kept on all night.
  • Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon

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