linen
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
linen/ˈlɪnɪn/
▶noun cloth woven from flax.
■ articles made, or originally made, of linen.
– origin OE līnen (as adj. in the sense ‘made of flax’), of W. Gmc origin; rel. to obs. line ‘flax’.
'linen' also found in these Oxford entries:
amice
- barb
- batiste
- bottom drawer
- broderie anglaise
- brown holland
- Brussels carpet
- buckram
- cambric
- crash
- crinoline
- diaper
- drill
- duck
- ecru
- grasscloth
- haircloth
- holland
- hope chest
- huckaback
- iron
- ironing
- launder
- laundress
- laundry
- lawn
- leno
- line
- linen basket
- linenfold
- lingerie
- linsey-woolsey
- manchester
- mutch
- napery
- press
- smock
- spindle
- stuff
- surplice
- terylene
- trousseau
- tucker
- twine
- union
- Vandyke
- wash
- white goods
- white sale
