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  • adjective Resembling linen.

Etymologies

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linen +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Each of the major fibers, as rendered in an ordinary plain-weave construction, has a unique, all but indescribable hand that is so familiar to us that we tend to use the fiber names archetypally and to speak of cottony, woolly, silky, and linenlike sensations.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Each of the major fibers, as rendered in an ordinary plain-weave construction, has a unique, all but indescribable hand that is so familiar to us that we tend to use the fiber names archetypally and to speak of cottony, woolly, silky, and linenlike sensations.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Each of the major fibers, as rendered in an ordinary plain-weave construction, has a unique, all but indescribable hand that is so familiar to us that we tend to use the fiber names archetypally and to speak of cottony, woolly, silky, and linenlike sensations.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Each of the major fibers, as rendered in an ordinary plain-weave construction, has a unique, all but indescribable hand that is so familiar to us that we tend to use the fiber names archetypally and to speak of cottony, woolly, silky, and linenlike sensations.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • The pail was there and some soft, linenlike sheeting that he must have used as toweling.

    Restoree McCaffrey, Anne 1967

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