A thin cotton, white, dyed, or printed. The name is also applied to coarser and heavier cotton goods; as, shirting and sheeting muslins. In sheeting, muslin is not as finely woven as percale.
Made of linen; as, linen cloth; a linen stocking.
Resembling linen cloth; white; pale.
Thread or cloth made of flax or (rarely) of hemp; - used in a general sense to include cambric, shirting, sheeting, towels, tablecloths, etc.; as, bed linens
Underclothing, esp. the shirt, as being, in former times, chiefly made of linen.