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单词 linen wings
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linen wings
Made of flax. In modern English apprehended chiefly as an attributive use of the noun, with the sense: Made of linen. †linen wings = sails.
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a700 Epinal Gloss. 1081 Linnin ryhae.
c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xiv. 82 Ðæt hrægl wæs beboden ðæt sceolde bion geworht of..twispunnenum twine linenum.
c1160 Hatton Gosp. John xix. 40 Hyo..be-wunden hine mid linene claðe.
c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 214 Nest flesch ne schal nan werien linnene clað.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 8962 Þis gode mold..gurde aboute hire middel a uair linne [v.r. linnene] ssete.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 236 Linene kertel erþan hi by huyte ueleziþe him be-houeþ þet he by ybeate and y-wesse.
1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1859) i. i. 1 She kevered it lappyng [it] in a clene lynnen clothe.
1466 Paston Lett. II. 270 For grey lynen cloth and sylk frenge for the hers.
c1480 (a1400) St. James Less 59 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 151 Lenyne clath he oysit ay.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xiii. 422 Thai..lynyng [1489 Adv. lynnyn] clothis had, but mair.
a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 207 I se him want ane sark, I reid ȝow, cummer, tak in ȝour lynning clais.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xliv. 18 They shal haue fayre lynnynge bonettes vpon their heades.
1571 E. Grindal Iniunctions Prouince of Yorke §4. sig. B.iij A comely and decent table,..with a faire linen clothe to lay vpon the same.
a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Sir John van Olden Barnavelt (1980) v. iii. 2913 Who vnbard the Havens, that the floating Merchant might clap his lynnen wings vp to the windes.
1660 S. Pepys Diary 24 May (1970) I. 156 Up, and made myself as fine as I could with the Linning stockings and wide Canons.
1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads ii. 485 A linen armour he wore on his breast.
1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World v. iii. §8. 474/1 Sextus [I]..ordered..that Priests should minister in Linnen Surplices.
1719 W. Wood Surv. Trade (ed. 2) 88 Our Returns are chiefly in Linnen and Linnen Yarn.
1759 J. Grainger tr. Tibullus Elegies i. v. 17 And I nine Times, in linnen garbs array'd, In silent Night, nine Times to Trivia pray'd.
1808 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 19 328 Some persons..washed their children with cold water by means of a linen cloth.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Linen-yarn, spun flax.
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