linenとは

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪnɪn/

名詞

linen (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 linens)

1. (uncountable) Thread or cloth made from flax fiber.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.

2. (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.

   She put the freshly cleaned linens into the linen closet.

   • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175, page 035:

     But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶ […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, […].

3. A light beige colour, like that of linen cloth undyed.

   linen colour:  

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形容詞

linen (not comparable)

1. Made from linen cloth or thread.
2. Having the colour linen, light beige.

参考

• fustian
• lingerie
• muslin
• flaxen
• Appendix:Colors

参照

• linen on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• Lenin, linne

別の表記

• līnin, līnnen, līnnin

語源

From Proto-Germanic *līnīnaz, equivalent to līne +‎ -en.

形容詞

līnen

1. made of flax, linen.

語形変化

派生した語

• Middle English: lynnen; lynen
  • English: linen
  • Scots: linin, linnin

参照

• línen in Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary