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Dressing :: Dressing (n.) Gum, starch, and the like, used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics..

Linen :: Linen (n.) Made of linen; as, linen cloth; a linen stocking..

Cambric :: Cambric (n.) A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen..

Airing :: Airing (n.) An exposure to air, or to a fire, for warming, drying, etc.; as, the airing of linen, or of a room..

Amber Fish :: Amber fish () A fish of the southern Atlantic coast (Seriola Carolinensis..

Blanch :: Blanch (a.) To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair..

Cuff :: Cuff (n.) Any ornamental appendage at the wrist, whether attached to the sleeve of the garment or separate; especially, in modern times, such an appendage of starched linen, or a substitute for it of paper, or the like..

Ecru :: Ecru (a.) Having the color or appearance of unbleached stuff, as silk, linen, or the like..

Drilling :: Drilling (n.) A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton..

Tinder :: Tinder (n.) Something very inflammable, used for kindling fire from a spark, as scorched linen..

Gambroon :: Gambroon (n.) A kind of twilled linen cloth for lining.

Spineless :: Spinel (n.) Bleached yarn in making the linen tape called inkle; unwrought inkle.

Lawny :: Lawny (a.) Made of lawn or fine linen.

Damask :: Damask (n.) Linen so woven that a pattern in produced by the different directions of the thread, without contrast of color..

Flax :: Flax (n.) A plant of the genus Linum, esp. the L. usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. The fiber of the bark is used for making thread and cloth, called linen, cambric, lawn, lace, etc. Linseed oil is expressed from the seed..

Band :: Band (v. t.) Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress..

Scrim :: Scrim (n.) A kind of light cotton or linen fabric, often woven in openwork patterns, -- used for curtains, etc,; -- called also India scrim..

Damasse :: Damasse (n.) A damasse fabric, esp. one of linen..

Mangle :: Mangle (n.) A machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure..

Linigerous :: Linigerous (a.) Bearing flax; producing linen.

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