0 cloth made of flax used to make sheets, tablecloths, tea-towels etc -- hør; hør-
(also adjective) linen sheets.
This handkerchief is made of linen
1 articles made of linen or, now more usually, cotton -- linned; -linned
bed-linen.
table-linen
The cotton and linen industries developed both putting-out structures and artisan industry, and soon the most widespread and rapid transition to factory production.
Most clothes were of woven wool or linen, and the richest people even had silk garments.
Here the number of male weavers - mostly of linen - had declined, and this presumably led to the loss of employment in spinning.
The monks wore coarse linen habits which surely blended harmoniously with the surrounding natural tones.
The paupers confined in hospitals and almshouses were often obliged to wear institutional clothing which was made from coarse cloths, linen and hemp.
There is a frequent laundry collection at the hotel, which suggests that all linen is changed on a daily basis.
Dispensing with fermentation saved time and money - less linen was lost and more ended up as the substance of sheets.
There is no trace of a cartoon remaining on the linen and no evidence of what form an original design might have taken.
