Table-linen
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Table-linen is a noun meaning Archaic form of table linen.
Meaning
Archaic form of table linen.
Example Sentences
Her father insisted upon her undivided attention while Mrs. Elliott selected table-linen, bed-linen, towels, and other household fittings; […]
Upwards of 300 persons are employed in weaving table-linens and table-covers, consisting of cotton and worsted, for Dunfermline, where they get their webs ready for the loom.
It was a comfortable thing for a social pair of fellow-travellers to get out of their chaise at night-fall, and to find at the inn (it was then kept by a cousin of mine, a Mrs. Cotter), a roaring fire, in a clean, well-furnished parlour, the whitest table-linen, the best beef, the sweetest and tenderest mutton, the fattest fowl, the most excellent wines (claret and Madeira were the high wines then—they knew nothing about Champagne), and the most comfortable beds.
Word Forms
- table-linens
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