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noun
1.
fabric woven from flax yarns.
2.
Often, linens. bedding, tablecloths, shirts, etc., made of linen cloth or a more common substitute, as cotton.
3.
yarn made of flax fiber.
4.
thread made of flax yarns.
adjective
5.
made of linen: a linen jacket.
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| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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wash one's dirty linen in public, to discuss in public one's private scandals, disagreements, or difficulties.
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linen
"cloth from woven flax," mid-14c., from O.E. linin (adj.) "made of flax," from lin "flax, linen thread, cloth," from W.Gmc. *linam (cf. O.N., O.H.G. lin "flax, linen," Ger. Leinen "linen," Goth. lein "linen cloth"), probably an early borrowing from L. linum "flax, linen," which, along with Gk. linon
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