"linen" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

linen sustantivo

sustantivo + linen
Kolokacji: 5
bed linen • table linen • household linen • cotton linen • altar linen
linen + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 59
linen shirt • linen cloth • linen napkin • linen suit • linen closet • ...
verbo + linen
Kolokacji: 6
wash one's linen • use linen • wear linen • sell linens • buy linens • ...
adjetivo + linen
Kolokacji: 43
white linen • fine linen • clean linen • dirty linen • fresh linen • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 12
(1) white, snowy, pale, gray
Kolokacji: 4
(2) fine, soft, thin
Kolokacji: 3
(4) dirty, coarse, black, raw
Kolokacji: 4
(5) crisp, cool
Kolokacji: 2
(9) heavy, thick, creamy
Kolokacji: 3
(10) spotless, immaculate
Kolokacji: 2
1. spotless linen = nieskazitelnie czyste płótno spotless linen
2. immaculate linen = nieskazitelne płótno immaculate linen
  • Red wine slopped over the edge, staining the immaculate linen.
  • He wore this morning a soft hat, a short cutaway coat, an open vest displaying immaculate linen, a leathern belt round his waist, and top-boots of soft leather, well polished, that came above his knees and required a string attached to his belt to keep them up.
  • He had learned to crave companionship, but it was his misfortune that most of the men he knew preferred immaculate linen and their clubs to nakedness and the jungle.
  • The central area directly ahead was filled with small round tables swathed in immaculate white linen, most of them occupied.
  • Fame, Caroline thought, placing her champagne glass down onto the immaculate linen.
  • The broad gold collar lying against his smooth, hairless chest, the linen of his kilt immaculate with its pressed pleats, the rings still on his motionless fingers.
  • Who was paying for your mansions, your gardens, the upkeep of your immaculate white linens?
  • She ignored Monk, and his immaculate linen.
  • In Britain, Beau Brummell introduced trousers, perfect tailoring, and unadorned, immaculate linen as the ideals of men's fashion.
  • Alicia smiled, still as she was always still on the immaculate linens, with Lily to tend her, to turn her, to love her with the devotion of many years.
(11) wet, damp, stiff
Kolokacji: 3
(12) Belgian, Italian
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + linen
Kolokacji: 8
with linen • of linen • in linen • on linen • for linens • ...

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