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発音

• IPA: /ˈlɪnɪn/

名詞

linen (countable and uncountable, plural linens)

1. (uncountable) Thread or cloth made from flax fiber.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     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:

     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.

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関連する語

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.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• Linné, Lenin, linne, Linne

語源

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

発音

• IPA: /ˈliː.nen/

形容詞

līnen

1. (relational) linen

語形変化

派生した語

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

参照

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “línen”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.