A fine linen (sometimes identified with byss, n.1 or byssus, n.). Often used attributively.

As a rendering of Latin sindon, the word was often understood (even before it became obsolete in sense 1) in the original Greek and Latin sense…

Textiles. A kind of fine linen or lawn, originally imported from France.

Fine linen.

A product or material manufactured or originating in Ireland. Cf. sense A. 2. A cloth or fabric produced in Ireland; (in later use) spec. = Irish…

= chaisel, n.

More fully cloth of Raines. Also as a count noun: a piece of this cloth.

A fine thin fabric of linen; a kind of cambric or muslin.

= sindon, n.

A fine kind of linen stuff.

A kind of fine white linen, originally made at Cambray in Flanders. (Also applied to an imitation made of hard-spun cotton yarn.)

A fine kind of linen or lawn. Also slyre-lawn.

Fine linen from the East Indies.

A kind of fine linen cloth.

A kind of fine linen. Also attributive.

‘A species of fine linen made in Cambray’ (Littré); also a similar eastern fabric.

A proprietary name for: a type of Irish linen. Also: a jacket or other garment made of this. Frequently attributive.