holland

Definition

A type of linen cloth, originally from Holland.

Etymology

After Holland, where it originally came from. From Old Dutch holt lant (“wood land”).

Example Sentences

• "I am convinced that many if not all the Quality in France were shirts of the finest holand, for tho' I never saw of them strip I have seen what is an equivalent proof, I have seen on the Bulwarks of Paris above twenty entire shirts hanging to dry that the best Gentlemen in England might wear without disparagement."
• "His apartments were blank. Brown hollands covered his library-table"