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linen

(lɪnɪn)
Word forms: plural linens
1. variable noun
Linen is a kind of cloth that is made from a plant called flax. It is used for making clothes and things such as tablecloths and sheets.
...a white linen suit.
...cottons, woolens, silks and linens.
2. uncountable noun
Linen is tablecloths, sheets, pillowcases, and similar things made of cloth that are used in the home.
...embroidered bed linen.
All linens and towels are provided.
3.  to wash your dirty linen in public

linen in British English

(ˈlɪnɪn)
noun
1. 
a. 
a hard-wearing fabric woven from the spun fibres of flax
b. 
(as modifier)
a linen tablecloth
2. 
yarn or thread spun from flax fibre
3. 
clothes, sheets, tablecloths, etc, made from linen cloth or from a substitute such as cotton
4.  linen paper
Word origin
Old English linnen, ultimately from Latin līnum flax, line2

linen in American English

(ˈlɪnən)
noun
1. 
yarn, thread, or cloth made of flax
2.  [often pl.]
things made of linen, or of cotton, etc., as tablecloths, sheets, shirts, etc.
see also bed linen, table linen
3. 
fine stationery orig. made from linen rags
adjective
4. 
spun from flax
linen thread
5. 
made of linen
Word origin
ME < OE (akin to Ger leinen) < lin, flax: see line2

More idioms containing
linen

wash your dirty linen in public

COBUILD Collocations
linen

white linen

Examples of 'linen' in a sentence
linen

All hurtful stuff and not helped by washing dirty linen in public.
The Sun (2017)
The sense of luxury extends to the oversized bathrooms and the lush bed linen.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
 Bed linen is included and beds are made up for your arrival.
The Sun (2016)
 Bed linen is available for hire but beds will not be made up.
The Sun (2017)
 Bed linen can be hired direct with your park.
The Sun (2017)
Then you need to add plants, crisp white bed linen and some artwork.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
If you hire bed linen, beds will be made up for your arrival.
The Sun (2017)
Higher quality interiors and the added convenience of made-up beds on arrival if bed linen is hired.
The Sun (2016)
Available with two or three bedrooms sleeping up to eight, bed linen is included and beds will be made up for your arrival.
The Sun (2017)
There are two double rooms and three twin rooms, all en suite and set over two floors, with whitewashed walls and crisp cotton linen.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Does not owning a linen shirt make you poor?
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
You do get maid service and bed linen.
The Sun (2008)
The nurses were refusing to allow dirty old linen trolleys into it.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Why are linen suits still a default choice for men in summer?
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
You need some cool white cotton or linen ones for day.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The pillows here are amazing and the bed linen very luxurious.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Sport needs to wash its dirty linen.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Meanwhile cotton or linen handkerchiefs are so last century.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
What most women of this age need is a white linen jacket.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
So do budget homeware like cutlery and bed linen as a new batch of students leave home.
The Sun (2013)
Please politely look the other way while we wash our particularly dirty linen.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Pale linen suits and cotton shirts are as popular as lightweight suits for men.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
 Cotton and linen covers will always shrink with washing.
Churchill, Jane (ed.) Collins Complete Books of Soft Furnishings (1993)
At the back of the aircraft was a single bed made up with crisp white linens.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
But in the present times a creditable day labourer would be ashamed to appear in public without a linen shirt.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Use it for curtains, tablecloths and bed linen.
Churchill, Jane (ed.) Collins Complete Books of Soft Furnishings (1993)
The elegant dining room has linen tablecloths, but retains bags of character with its oak beams.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
He's got a linen shirt that needs a bit of work.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The campfire, linen tablecloth and flickering lamps pile on the magic.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Buy an oversized man's shirt in linen or cotton.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
That night, I lay in bed under linen with a thread count of about four.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)

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linen

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In other languages
linen

British English: linen /ˈlɪnɪn/ NOUN
Linen is a kind of cloth that is made from a plant called flax.
...a white linen suit.
  • American English: linen
  • Arabic: كَتّاْنُ
  • Brazilian Portuguese: linho
  • Chinese: 亚麻布
  • Croatian: lan
  • Czech: plátno tkanina
  • Danish: linned
  • Dutch: linnen
  • European Spanish: lino
  • Finnish: pellava
  • French: lin
  • German: Leinen
  • Greek: λινό
  • Italian: lino
  • Japanese: 麻
  • Korean: 리넨
  • Norwegian: lin
  • Polish: płótno bielizna
  • European Portuguese: linho
  • Romanian: olandăpânză de in
  • Russian: льняная ткань
  • Latin American Spanish: lino
  • Swedish: linne
  • Thai: ผ้าลินิน
  • Turkish: keten kumaş
  • Ukrainian: лляне полотно
  • Vietnamese: vải lanh

Chinese translation of 'linen'

linen

(ˈlɪnɪn)

n (u)

  1. (= cloth) 亚(亞)麻布 (yàmábù)
  2. (= tablecloths, sheets) 亚(亞)麻制(製)品 (yàmá zhìpǐn)

cpd

  1. [jacket, sheets] 亚(亞)麻料 (yàmáliào)
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