Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word LINEN

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Definitions of LINEN

1. A light beige colour, like that of linen cloth undyed.
2. Made from linen cloth or thread.
3. Having the colour linen, light beige.
4. (uncountable) Thread or cloth made from flax fiber.
5. (countable) Domestic textiles, such as tablecloths, bedding, towels, underclothes, etc., that are made of linen or linen-like fabrics of cotton or other fibers; linens.
6. A surname.

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Examples of Using LINEN in a Sentence

• The stitcher counts the threads on a piece of evenweave fabric (such as linen) in each direction so that the stitches are of uniform size and appearance.
• They were usually constructed of linen or wool; the stuffing varied, and could be, for example, scrap cloth or horse hair.
• The hoplites were primarily represented by free citizens – propertied farmers and artisans – who were able to afford a linen or bronze armour suit and weapons (estimated at a third to a half of its able-bodied adult male population).
• March 17 – Gertrude of Nivelles, daughter of Pepin of Landen (mayor of the palace of Austrasia), requests on her deathbed a burial wearing a plain linen shroud.
• Textiles made from flax are known in English as linen, and are traditionally used for bed sheets, underclothes, and table linen.
• Because of these properties, linen is comfortable to wear in hot weather and is valued for use in garments.
• The Venetian and Genoese merchants paid visits to Trabzon during the medieval period and sold silk, linen and woolen fabric.
• Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen and embroidered cloth.
• Modern canvas is usually made of cotton or linen, or sometimes polyvinyl chloride (PVC), although historically it was made from hemp.
• Hardanger embroidery or "Hardangersøm" is a form of embroidery traditionally worked with white thread on white even-weave linen or cloth, using counted thread and drawn thread work techniques.
• It was one of the main centres of the linen industry west of the River Bann, and until 1956 the flax-related processes of spinning, weaving, bleaching and beetling were carried out in the town.
• The Ida Grove post office contains an oil on linen mural, Preparation for the First County Fair in Ida Grove–1872, painted by Andrene Kauffman in 1940.
• The town was originally named Howard; after the Willimantic Linen Company erected a woodworking factory in 1879 to produce spools for thread, it was renamed in 1881 to Willimantic, after Willimantic, Connecticut.
• Paper was then a rare and expensive product, made by chopping rags of linen and cotton cloth into pulp.
• An elderly African-American man, Zack Kimbro, continued to maintain the chapel and place fresh flowers and clean linen on its altar.
• Today, velvet can be made from silk, linen, cotton, wool, synthetic fibers, silk-cotton blends, or synthetic-natural fiber blends.
• In the 19th century, Anklam was connected with Berlin and Stettin (Szczecin) by rail and developed its manufacture of linen and woolen goods, leather, beer, and soap.
• High Wycombe remained a mill town through Medieval and Tudor times, manufacturing lace and linen cloth.
• Gruber was born on 25 November 1787 in the village of Hochburg-Ach, Upper Austria, the son of linen weavers, Josef and Maria Gruber.
• The town was one of the smallest cities in the Hanseatic League, but had become prosperous in the fourteenth and fifteenth century through its trade in beer, hops, linen, and yarn.
• During all this time, the economy of the city depended on the breeding of sheep for the cloth industry, complemented by the cultivation of flax for the manufacture and trade of linen.
• In the late Middle Ages, Turnhout was a well-known center for the weaving of bedding articles and of the linen trade.
• When the author Daniel Defoe visited the town during the 18th century, he noted that it was eminent for "good bleaching of linen, so that I have known cloth brought from Scotland to be bleached here".
• The son of a Presbyterian linen draper, Butler was destined for the ministry of that church, and with the future archbishop Thomas Secker, entered Samuel Jones's dissenting academy at Gloucester (later Tewkesbury) for the purpose.
• He is often described as an ironmonger, but he trained as a linen draper, a trade which came under the Ironmongers' Company.

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