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linen
noun
[ ˈlɪnɪn ]
• cloth woven from flax.
• "a linen suit"
Origin:
Old English līnen (as an adjective in the sense ‘made of flax’), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch linnen, German Leinen, also to obsolete line ‘flax’.
