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# linen

«linen» in Mova's school dictionary: **a strong, cool cloth made from the flax plant** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (linen, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Linen is a strong, cool cloth made from the flax plant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linen/#m1)

2) Linen (or household linen) means sheets, pillowcases, tablecloths and towels, even when they are made of cotton. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linen/#m2)

3) (church) The white cloths used on the altar for communion are called altar linens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linen/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history: the ancient Egyptians wrapped mummies in linen. In everyday life: bed linen, a linen cupboard, table linen. In science and technology: flax fibres are spun into linen thread.

### examples

- Mum keeps the sheets in the linen cupboard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linen/#x1)
- My summer shirt is made of linen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linen/#x2)
- The ancient Egyptians wove fine linen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linen/#x3)
- Please change the bed linen on Saturday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linen/#x4)
- The linen tablecloth was white and crisp. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linen/#x5)
- Linen comes from the stems of the flax plant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linen/#x6)
- The priest folded the white linen on the altar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linen/#x7)
- He is wrapped in yellow linen, and embalmed with spices. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linen/#x8)

### note

Uncountable: «some linen», «a linen shirt». Used as an adjective: linen sheets. Phrase: «wash your dirty linen in public» means talk about private family problems where others can hear.

### In the corpora

- [Bodies were dried with a special salt and wrapped in linen to make mummies, nothing like the walking mummies of films.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/6-ancient-egypt-pyramids-mummies-and-hieroglyphs/5/)
- [and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.704/)
- [And they shall take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.803/)
- [and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1052/)
- [All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1168/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «linen» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linen/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.