"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
(11) wet, damp, stiff
Kolokacji: 3
1. wet linen = mokre płótno wet linen
2. damp linen = wilgotne płótno damp linen
3. stiff linen = sztywne płótno stiff linen
  • The most common form of armour was the linothorax, which was a cuirass of stiff linen built up of glued layers of textile.
  • Mrs Hobbs was wearing a tent of stiff, pink linen.
  • It was a place known for stiff white linen, discreet service, excellent food, and what the Carescrian had grown to know, and respect, as "good music."
  • "Nay," Lady Imeyne said, smearing a greenish paste on a piece of stiff linen.
  • Under the noise the manservant made unrolling the stiff linen and setting it up on its frame, she whispered: "See?
  • Connor grimaced at the thought of fastening the stiff white linen around his neck.
  • By the side of the body was the gilded mask, with black and staring eyes, and the painted breast-piece of stiff linen, neither of which the thieves had found worth stealing.
  • Lifting the mummy, I thrust it into the sarcophagus, all of it save the gilded mask and the painted breast-piece of stiff linen.
  • I felt her stiff linen and the thick hair of her wig, and beneath it the hurried pounding of her heart.
  • Stylus in hand, she flipped through the manuscript, stopping to copy symbols onto a square of stiff linen.
(12) Belgian, Italian
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + linen
Kolokacji: 8
with linen • of linen • in linen • on linen • for linens • ...

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