underlinen

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.

Idioms

6. wash one’s dirty linen in public, to discuss in public one’s private scandals, disagreements, or difficulties.

noun

1. underclothes, esp when made of linen

noun

1. 1. a hard-wearing fabric woven from the spun fibres of flax
   2. (as modifier)a linen tablecloth
2. yarn or thread spun from flax fibre
3. clothes, sheets, tablecloths, etc, made from linen cloth or from a substitute such as cotton
4. See linen paper

n.“cloth from woven flax,” early 14c.; earlier as an adjective, “made of flax” (c.1200), from Old English linin (adj.) “made of flax,” from lin “flax, linen thread, cloth,” from West Germanic *linam (cf. Old Saxon, Old Norse, Old High German lin “flax, linen,” German Leinen “linen,” Gothic lein “linen cloth”), probably an early borrowing from Latin linum “flax, linen,” which, along with Greek linon is from a non-IE language. see wash one’s dirty linen in public.