Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cotton or linen fabric, usually sized or glazed, that is used especially for window shades, bookbinding, and upholstery.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun . Linen imported from the Netherlands.
- noun Unbleached linen cloth, made in many places, but especially in Scotland.
- Made of linen from the Netherlands, or of unbleached linen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of linen first manufactured in Holland; a linen fabric used for window shades, children's garments, etc..
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A coarse
woollen cloth used in furnishing
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a constitutional monarchy in western Europe on the North Sea; half the country lies below sea level
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I cant wait to see the whole trailer tomorrow at 3pm (i live in holland)
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There is this guy here in holland who dressed up as the Joker for his ID-picture, with a hat and make-up and such, which shouldve made it unusable as an ID-picture.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Today’s Comic: Something Different Friday 2007
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I live in holland, the legal minimumwage here is â ‚ ¬7,34 which is about $9.30.
Think Progress » VIDEO: Oprah Tackles Minimum Wage Crisis 2006
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Next followed four couple of Maurice dancers with their pranceing horses, in holland shirts with laced hatt riboned, and Cross swashes and garters wth bells, wth their two antiques drest in their formalityes, wth hankershiefs in their hands danceing all ye way.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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We must now pass from the region of romance and fable to its very antipodes in realism; to the examination of a strip of fine linen cloth of the colour of brown holland, which is exhibited in the Public Library at Bayeux.
Normandy Picturesque Henry Blackburn 1863
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Fabric produced by the Dutch process was called holland cloth.
Covenant Zone 2010
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Next procure sufficient of the material known as black "holland," which sew all round the ring of the net in such a manner that it does not interfere with the working of the hinge.
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The T being afpirated in Irifh, lofes its found, thus tholanta is pro - nounced holanta, which is probably the Englifh word holland, i. e* fine Knen, i.e. tbaub, pannuS) linta, linteus: the Dutch being remarkable for this manufadture, may perhaps have received their name from this word.
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This is not an accurate count of the american people, polling director keating holland needs to get a paper route and stop this awful inaccurate count of the american people.
CNN Poll: Dems becoming less popular but no gains for GOP 2009
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I read much of the house bill hr32 'I find it it too vage! mark l holland
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