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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Weaving in which the warp yarns are paired and twisted.
  • noun A fabric having such a weave.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A very thin linen cloth made in imitation of muslin, and sometimes called linen muslin.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A light open cotton fabric used for window curtains.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun textiles A type of weave used to make light, open cotton fabric used for window curtains.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Perhaps from French linon, linen fabric, from lin, flax, from Old French, from Latin līnum; see linen.]

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From Italian leno ("weak, flexible")

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