单词 | white-linen |
释义 | > as lemmaswhite-linen white-linen adj. ΚΠ 1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) clxx. 251 Our sauyour Ihesu Criste was taken doun of the crosse, And enoynted with precious oynementis, & envoluped in whyte lynen cloth. 1537 tr. Original & Sprynge all Sectes f. 28v Euery man wythyn the Alpes or mountaynes of Italy clothed hymselfe in a whyte lynnen garmente. 1756 F. Home Exper. Bleaching 26 Lye which has been used to white linen, called white-linen lye. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxviii. 96 His ‘long togs’, the half-pay, his beaver hat, white linen shirts, and everything else. 1998 Vanity Fair Apr. 332 With their adaptations of Henry James and E.M. Forster, they held a monopoly on ‘white-linen movies’. < as lemmas |
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