a hard-wearing cloth or yarn made from flax
household articles, e.g. sheets and tablecloths, made typically, esp formerly, of linen
archaic washable underclothing
When my ablutions were completed, I was put into clean linen of the stiffest character … and trussed up in my tightest … suit — Dickens
[Old English līnen, from līn flax, from Latin linum]