body linen

body linen

English

Noun

body linen (uncountable)

1. (now historical) Linen used for clothing, especially underwear or nightwear.
   • 1960, AM Holt, translating Gottfried Keller, Green Henry, Calder Publications 2010, p. 382:

     The young lady remarked pleasantly that she had brought over her own, and her best, body-linen, and had left the older stuff on the other side, so as not to make too shabby a show in the alien territory.

Translations

linen

French: linge de corps (fr) m