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lineny en · ADJ

Etymology

From linen + -y.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characterized by linen.
   • I felt the material of her dress against my cheek. And smelt the clean lineny smell of her. 1997, Peter Cameron, Andorra, New York: Picador, Part Two, Chapter Fifteen, p. 175:
   • Garth sat beside the bed in the middle of the big sunny ward. […] The place was blanched and lineny with an apocalyptic impersonal light and people shaded their eyes and lowered their voices. 1971, Iris Murdoch, An Accidental Man, New York: Viking, page 216:
   • She laid herself upon the bed, regardless of her fluffy tulle and magnolia blossoms, and turned her face against the lineny coolness of the pillow. 1885, Alice King Hamilton, chapter 17, in One of the Duanes, Philadelphia: Lippincott, pages 239–240:

Forms

Synonyms

linenlike (resembling linen)