linen

From Middle English lynnen, lynen, from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Proto-West Germanic *līnīn (“made of flax”), from Proto-Germanic *līną (“flax”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”), equivalent to line +‎ -en. Cognate with Latin līnum (“flax”). More at line.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪnɪn/

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linen (countable and uncountable, plural linens)

1. (uncountable) Thread or cloth made from flax fiber.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.

2. (countable) Domestic textiles, such as tablecloths, bedding, towels, underclothes, etc., that are made of linen or linen-like fabrics of cotton or other fibers; linens.

   She put the freshly cleaned linens into the linen closet.

   • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:

     But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶ […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, […].

3. A light beige colour, like that of linen cloth undyed.

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linen (not comparable)

1. Made from linen cloth or thread.
2. Having the colour linen, light beige.

• fustian
• lingerie
• muslin
• flaxen
• Appendix:Colors

• linen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Lenin, linne

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Middle English lynnen, lynen, from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Proto-Germanic *līnīnaz (“made of flax”), from Proto-Germanic *līną (“flax”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”). Superseded lino.

• Hyphenation: li‧nen

linen

1. Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value); thread or cloth made from flax fiber

linen

1. made from linen cloth or thread

linen f (plural linennow or linednow)

1. singulative of lin
2. thread

• (thread): neusen/neujen

From Dutch linnen, from Middle Dutch linijn, from Proto-West Germanic *līnīn (“made of flax”), from Proto-Germanic *līną (“flax”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈlinən]
• Hyphenation: li‧nên

linên (first-person possessive linenku, second-person possessive linenmu, third-person possessive linennya)

1. linen: a cloth made from flax.

• lènan, linan
• Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) (Standard Malay)

• “linen” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

• līnin, līnnen, līnnin

From Proto-Germanic *līnīnaz, equivalent to līne +‎ -en.

• IPA^(key): /ˈliː.nen/

līnen

1. (relational) Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• Middle English: lynnen; lynen
  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
  • Scots: linin, linnin

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “línen”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.