Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Weaving in which the warp yarns are paired and twisted.
- noun A fabric having such a weave.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A very thin linen cloth made in imitation of muslin, and sometimes called
linen muslin .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A light open cotton fabric used for window curtains.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun textiles A type of
weave used to make light, open cotton fabric used for window curtains.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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For this purpose a strip of about 2 in. wide will be enough, which, doubled over and hemmed at the bottom, allows sufficient for the net -- a bag made of the material called "leno" -- to be subsequently affixed.
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About a yard of "leno" suffices for the bag, and the pieces which come off the bottom during the operation of rounding it, form "gussets" to fill the net in up to the point where the arms B and C first spring.
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To open and fix the net from the position shown in Fig. 44 (which for the sake of clearness is shown without the "leno"), pull the whipcord
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To finish, tie a piece of whipcord in the holes from b to b, and sew the holland all around the net as before, leaving plenty of room for the playing of the slides; the "leno" is then sewn to this in the usual manner, and thus becomes a fixture, as in the preceding net.
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Over the flower pot may be strained two pieces of wire or cane, crossing each other in the form of arches, the whole covered with muslin; or a handier plan to get to the insects quickly when emerged, or to damp the pupae, is to procure from the glass merchant the waste cylinders of glass cut from shades, pasting over one end with "leno" or muslin, and placing the other in the flower pot on top of the earth or moss.
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Fred ♪ ♫ ♪ says: aaronk thinks two quitters/losers are aces in his book. leno and palin. speaks volumes for his thought process, no?
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Fred ♪ ♫ ♪ says: aaronk thinks two quitters/losers are aces in his book. leno and palin. speaks volumes for his thought process, no?
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Many people gave up on leno after he had limberger on his show.
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Take Conan's situation prior to the whole Tonight Show/leno debacle: The humor of his I always found the funniest, the real roots of why his was funny were in Conan's Late Night show.
Conan O’Brien Comedy Tour May Spawn Documentary | /Film 2010
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Fred ♪ ♫ ♪ says: palin will last about as well as leno did.
Think Progress » Sarah Palin admits to questioning whether Saddam was behind 9/11. 2010
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