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A square piece of linen used formerly by women instead of a cap; a kerchief. [Scot.] [Written also curch.] Jamieson.

Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.

Embroidery in crewels, commonly done upon some plain material, such as linen.

Exposing linen to the sun, on the grass, in the process of bleaching.

eve of the garment or separate;especially, in modern times, such an appendage of starched linen, or a substitute for it of paper, or the like.

for embroidery, esp. applied to the earliest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed.

Linen so woven that a pattern in produced by the different directions of the thread, without contrast of color.

A damassé fabric, esp. one of linen.

Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance. [Obs.] Severe defenses . . . against wearing any linen under a certain breadth. Sir W. Temple.

Any textile fabric (esp. linen or cotton toweling) woven in diaper pattern. See 2.

n Flemish, Doornick), Belgium, and used for hangings, carpets, etc. Also, a stout figured linen manufactured in Scotland. [Formerly written also darnex, dornic, dorneck, etc.] Halliwell. Jamieson.

A coarse linen cloth made in the north of England and in Scotland, now nearly replaced by calico. Shak.

A coarse linen fabric, or duck.

ls; -- most commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, but also applicable to silks, printed linens, and calicoes.

Gum, starch, and the like, used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.

Same as Drilling. Imperial drill, a linen fabric having two threads in the warp and three in the filling.

A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton.

A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries. [U.S.]

A linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric, finer and lighter than canvas, -- used for the lighter sails of vessels, the sacking of beds, and sometimes for men's clothing.

Having the color or appearance of unbleached stuff, as silk, linen, or the like.