linen Definition

linen
noun

1. Cloth made from flax.
2. Household articles such as sheets, tablecloths, tea-towels, etc originally made from linen, now more likely to be made from cotton or man-made fibres.
3. Underwear, which was originally made of linen.

adj

1. Made of or like linen.

Idiom: wash one's dirty linen in public

To let personal problems and quarrels, often of a sordid nature, become generally known.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon, from lin flax.