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/ˈlɪnən/ · /ˈlɪnɪn/
Linen is a type of cloth made from the flax plant. It feels cool and a little rough compared to cotton, and it easily, but many people like it for summer clothes because it lets your skin breathe. The word is also used more loosely for anything cloth-like used in the home, even if it is not really made from flax - 'bed linen' means your sheets and pillowcases, and 'table linen' means and napkins, even when they are actually cotton or .
亞麻布;(泛稱)寢具、桌布類布料
組成Linen comes from Latin 'linum', the word for the flax plant it is made from.
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Linenname
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A surname.
linennoun/ˈlɪnɪn/
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Thread or cloth made from flax fiber.
- 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.
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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.
- She put the freshly cleaned linens into the linen closet.
- 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,[…].
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A light beige colour, like that of linen cloth undyed.
linenadj/ˈlɪnɪn/
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Made from linen cloth or thread.
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Having the colour linen, light beige.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。