bedlinen

noun

Etymology

From bed + linen.

  1. derived from *līno-
  2. derived from *līną
  3. inherited from *līnīn
  4. inherited from līnen
  5. inherited from lynnen
  6. compounded as bedlinen — “bed + linen

Definitions

  1. The items of cloth used to make up a bed, such as sheets and pillowcases, formerly made…

    The items of cloth used to make up a bed, such as sheets and pillowcases, formerly made of linen but now manufactured in a wide variety of material such as cotton or polyester.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at bedlinen. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at bedlinen. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at bedlinen

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA