linen
要点リネン
意味
- リネン,亜麻布;リネン糸
- 《しばしば複数形で;単数扱い》リネン製品(特に敷布)
- リネンの;リネン製の
例文
Let's not wash our dirty linen in public.
うちの恥をさらすな。
Don't wash your dirty linen in public.
汚い下着を人前で洗うな。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English lynnen, lynen, from Old English līnen (“linen", "made of flax”), from Proto-West Germanic *līnīn (“made of flax”), from Proto-Germanic *līną (“flax”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”), equivalent to line + -en. Cognate with Latin līnum (“flax”) and thus also Linum. More at line.