Word Finder - linen

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Thread or cloth made from flax fiber.

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Domestic textiles, such as tablecloths, bedding, towels, underclothes, etc., that are made of linen or linen-like fabrics of cotton or other fibers; linens.

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She put the freshly cleaned linens into the linen closet.

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

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Made from linen cloth or thread.

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Having the colour linen, light beige.

There were linen napkins, two china plates and champagne flutes on top.

He offered an Irish linen handkerchief from his pocket and waited.

Gabe's step slowed as he neared the man dressed in a white shirt held closed by two buttons and cream linen pants rolled to his knees, as if he'd been walking in the ocean.

There are numerous tanneries, and the manufacture of boots and shoes and linen goods is carried on.

Meanwhile Agrippa gave the Levites the right to wear the linen robe of the priests and sanctioned the use of the temple treasure to provide work - the paving of the city with white stones - for the workmen who had finished the Temple (64) and now stood idle.

The industry is not well developed, but the weaving of linen and lace is pursued as a household industry.

There are factories of linen and cotton goods, and of felt hats, paper mills, and a celebrated bell foundry at Annecy le Vieux.

The industries consist of manufactures of cotton, linen, woollens and worsteds, and leather.

Trautenau is the centre of the Bohemian linen industry and has factories for the manufacture of paper and for the utilization of the waste products of the other mills.

The unaccustomed coarse food, the vodka he drank during those days, the absence of wine and cigars, his dirty unchanged linen, two almost sleepless nights passed on a short sofa without bedding--all this kept him in a state of excitement bordering on insanity.

Taran looked down at his own richly spun wool and linen clothing, pitying the men on the beach.

In the middle ages it was the seat of a large trade in linen.

An active trade is carried on with Austria, especially through the Isakovets and Gusyatin custom-houses, corn, cattle, horses, skins, wool, linseed and hemp seed being exported, in exchange for wooden wares, linen, woollen stuffs, cotton, glass and agricultural implements.

The tunica was originally of white wool, but in the 3rd century it began to be made of linen, and from the 4th century was always of linen.

The main dining area consists of two rows of tables covered with crisp white linen.

Besides manufactures of brandy, flour, oil, soap, linen and cloth, it has an active trade in wheat, wine and fruit, especially melons.

Its once famous tanneries have lost their importance, but the manufacture of linen has increased; it has also steam flour-mills, distilleries, manufactories of soap and of iron implements.

Mixed with gum arabic it forms a marking ink for linen.

The restaurant's ambiance is considered romantic and exotic, accented by dark woods and white linen.

You would think the women had spread out their linen, said one of the men, gazing with admiration at the Milky Way.

It gave its name to cadurcum, a kind of light linen, and the bankers of Cahors were famous.

The principal manufactures are woollen, linen, cotton, cast-iron goods, beet-sugar, leather and brandy.

Segesvar has a good woollen and linen trade, as well as exports of wine and fruit.

Linen, paper (to varieties of which Herrnhut gives its name), tobacco and various minor articles are manufactured.

Woollen and linen goods are manufactured, and there are ribbon looms and tanneries in the town, and large iron works in the neighbourhood.

Mansura has several cottonginning, cotton, linen and sail-cloth factories.

The principal manufacture, and that which has given a peculiar tone to the character of the population, is that of linen, though it has somewhat declined in modern times.

The solution, containing hypochlorites and chlorates, was then applied to the bleaching of linen, paper-pulp or the like, the solution being used over and over again.

His bristly black person, and shagged breast quite open and rarely purified by any ablutions, was wrapped in a foul linen nightgown and his bushy hair dishevelled.

Georgswalde is one of the oldest industrial places of Bohemia, and together with the neighbouring town of Rumburg is the principal centre of the linen industry.

Other principal public buildings, nearly all to be included in modern schemes of development, are the city hall, occupying the site of the old Linen Hall, in Donegall Square, estimated to cost £300,000; the commercial buildings (1820) in Waring Street, the customhouse and inland revenue office on Donegall Quay, the architect of which, as of the court house, was Sir Charles Lanyon, and some of the numerous banks, especially the Ulster Bank.

The chief exports are linen, whisky, aerated waters, iron ore and cattle.

Next in importance comes the spinning and weaving of wool, cotton, linen and carpet manufactures, and dyeing.

The town has several linen manufactories and a large cotton spinnery, but is chiefly famed for its many extensive breweries, which mainly produce a black beer, not unlike English porter, which is largely exported.

Jagerndorf has large manufactories of cloth, woollens, linen and machines, and carries on an active trade.

The diadem, which was of eastern origin, was a fillet or band of linen or silk, richly embroidered, and was worn tied round the forehead.

The linen or silk diadem was eventually exchanged for a flexible band of gold, which was worn in its place round the forehead.

Almost all industries are represented; chief among them are machine-building, the manufacture of india-rubber, linen, cloth, hardware, chemicals, tobacco, pianos, furniture and groceries.

Exports are all kinds of manufactured goods, such as cotton, linen, woollen, worsted and leather goods, machinery and hardware.

The chief manufactures of the town are linen goods, soap, malt, and agricultural implements, and a brisk trade is carried on in cattle, grain and geese.

The local industries, chiefly developed since 1880, include the manufacture of cotton, linen, wool, ribbons, cloth, chocolate, soap, brandies, leather, cards and nails.

Flax is grown in the Erzgebirge and Lusatian mountains, where the manufacture of linen was at one time a flourishing domestic industry.

Linen is manufactured chiefly in the mountains of Lusatia, where the looms are still to some extent found in the homes of the weavers.

Their clothing was partly of linen and partly of woollen fabrics and the skins of their beasts.

Originally the diaconal stole would seem to have been a narrow strip of folded linen, and it appears in the pictures of the 9th century as a narrow band ornamented with crosses.

It is now best known for its fine linen, which ranks with that of Larne.

Glass and coarse linen and woollen stuffs are manufactured; and there are valuable stone quarries in the neighbourhood.

It possesses manufactures of cloth, table-linen and earthenware, and has an active trade in wine, linen, cattle and grain.

Pliny speaks of the whiteness of its linen, and the productiveness of its vines is mentioned.

Linen goods are manufactured; fairs are held twice yearly, and numerous flour mills are worked by the river.