[lee-noh] 
noun, plural -nos, adjective | 1. | Also called leno weave, gauze weave. a weave structure in which paired warp yarns are intertwined in a series of figure eights and filling yarn is passed through each of the interstices so formed, producing a firm, open mesh. |
| 2. | any fabric in this weave. |
| 3. | made in leno weave. |
| le·no (lē'nō) n. pl. le·nos
[Perhaps from French linon, linen fabric, from lin, flax, from Old French, from Latin līnum; see linen.] |
