"underlinen" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: underlinens [plural]
Etymology: From under + linen. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|under|linen}} under + linen Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} underlinen (countable and uncountable, plural underlinens)
  1. (dated) underwear (especially, but not always, made of linen); any undergarment. Tags: countable, dated, uncountable Hypernyms: linen
    Sense id: en-underlinen-en-noun-OcCTe2C7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1914, Mary King Waddington, My First Years As A Frenchwoman, 1876-1879:",
          "text": "Suddenly she announced her intention of becoming a nun--sold her house and lovely garden, where she had spent so many happy hours with her flowers and her birds, distributed her pretty things among her friends, and accepted all the small trials of strict convent life--no bath, nor mirror, coarse underlinen and sheets--no fire, no lights, no privacy, the regular irksome routine of a nun's life, and is perfectly happy--never misses the intellectual companionship and the refinement and daintiness of her former life,--likes the commonplace routine of the convent--the books they read to each other in \"recreation,\" simple stories one would hardly give to a child of twelve or fourteen,--the fetes on the \"mother's\" birthday, when the nuns make a cake and put a wreath of roses on the mother's head.",
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          "ref": "1922, P. G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves:",
          "text": "He did so, and I commenced to don, \"Well, Jeeves,\" I said, reaching for the underlinen, \"here we are again at Brinkley Court in the county of Worcestershire.\"",
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        "(dated) underwear (especially, but not always, made of linen); any undergarment."
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