Irish linen
Americannoun
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The moon hangs low in the red sky of “Flickering Margin of Horizon,” whose painterly gestures are deepened by the conspicuous weave of Irish linen.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022
Rosaleen met John Rickerby in 1951 when she was the 17-year-old new girl at an Irish linen company in Belfast where he worked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2015
A piece of Irish linen embroidered by Elizabeth Nokes from the Richard III Society was also placed alongside the skeleton, which was laid out "as if articulated".
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2015
I gave him an Irish linen tablecloth – that's how naive.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 6, 2011
I pulled out my mother's upper right-hand bureau drawer and slipped the blue jewelry box from its hiding place under the scented Irish linen handkerchiefs.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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