(n.) A strong white fabric with warp of hemp and weft of flax.
(n.) A fabric with cotton warp and woolen weft.
(n.) A kind of chintz with a glossy surface.
Example Sentences:
Linen
Definition:
(n.) Made of linen; as, linen cloth; a linen stocking.
(n.) Resembling linen cloth; white; pale.
(n.) Thread or cloth made of flax or (rarely) of hemp; -- used in a general sense to include cambric, shirting, sheeting, towels, tablecloths, etc.
(n.) Underclothing, esp. the shirt, as being, in former times, chiefly made of linen.
Example Sentences:
(1) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
(2) If you needed a soundtrack to a film about dodgy diplomatic manouvering by folk in linen suits, this would do the job.
(3) They wrapped the heads of these 41 infants with a dry linen cloth.
(4) The present work reports the survival capacity of a strain of Brevibacterium linens isolated from a French camembert cheese and the ensuing changes in cell composition.
(5) In a deconsecrated Mayfair church lit with Parisian-style globe lamps, Ronnie Scott's orchestra played jazz standards as waiters in traditional black linen aprons circulated with champagne.
(6) It shows the costs in 1979 included £464 spent on replacing linen, £39 on "sewing carpet seams", £19 on an ironing board and £527 on cleaning carpets.
(7) Then go beg the lady with the clipboard, while others swan past to join the cocktail-swilling vacationers swathed in white linen on the porch.
(8) It was concluded that respiratory acidosis, rather than hypoxia, resulting from restraint in a linen cloth decreases muscle protein synthesis.
(9) To really be beloved in France he needs to learn to swear with the virtuosity of a Frenchman who's mislaid his linen Agnes B scarf in the Rue du Bac.
(10) You're on a journey, so this is not the moment for lobster and posh table linen, but there's a big car park, useful paths up Glen Fyne where you can exercise the dog, and the excellent Tree Shop .
(11) A laundry facility supplying linen to several hospitals needs to keep a good account of the numbers of different types of linen which enter and leave its premises so as to allocate the costs fairly and equitably among member hospitals.
(12) Mercerization of linen threads for surgical use does not improve their properties.
(13) The British elite wore Indian linen and silks, decorated their homes with Indian chintz and decorative textiles, and craved Indian spices and seasonings.
(14) The proposed procedures include linen washing after its pediculicidal treatment.
(15) Under conditions of our test, Quarpel treated Pima tight-woven cotton cloth was impermeable to moist bacterial strike-through, through up to 75 washing and sterilizing cyclings, while ordinary linen and untreated Pima cloth permitted bacterial permeation almost immediately.
(16) The rooms are cosily furnished, with wooden beds and crisp, white linen and some have little balconies with cushioned seating overlooking the cloud forest and the town below.
(17) Photograph: Teri Pengilley for the Guardian In Scotland, vitriol replaced or supplemented sour milk and citric acid in textile bleaching and dyeing at a time when linen and cotton were Scotland’s largest manufacturing industries.
(18) This study was the find cut how to refine linen surgical threads by bettering some parameters of raw material and by replacing the preparations used in Poland, consisting mainly of wax and paraffin, with preparations of synthetic polymers of acknowledged suitability for medical use.
(19) He was "shown a long piece of linen on which was impressed the figure of a man and told to worship it, kissing the feet three times".
(20) Its function is to fulfill all hospital requirements for disposable minor medical and linen supplies.