Bed Linen

Definition: Bed Linen

Bed Linen

Noun

1. Linen or cotton articles for a bed (as sheets and pillowcases).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Crosswords: Bed Linen

Health

The eggs may be scattered into the air from bed linen and clothing, and can cling to doorknobs, furniture, tubs and faucets, and even food. Although a person may have no symptoms over a long period, episodes of infection may return repeatedly. (references)

Business

An overwhelming majority claimed that they most often use bed linen made from cotton, linen, and flannel (in winter). (references)

According to this survey, the use of the "Cotton USA" label in Europe could increase sales as much as 12 percent for bed linen and 24 percent for towels. (references)

The steady growth of the mail order business in Germany also provides opportunities for foreign manufacturers of household textiles such as bed linen and table linen. (references)

Economic History

Mauritius

Another U.S. citizen, through an offshore company is engaged in the design and marketing of hand-embroidered table and bed linen that are produced in Madagascar for export to U.S. and Europe. (references)

Trade

Pakistan

Items on the "negative" list include: translations of the Holy Koran without Arabic text; goods bearing words or inscriptions of a religious connotation; obscene pictures, writings, or inscriptions; horror comics; obscene, subversive and anti-Islamic literature; products and by-products of pigs, hogs, boars, or swine; fireworks; tanks and armored vehicles; artillery weapons; revolvers and pistols of prohibited bores; parlor games; gambling equipment; sculptures, worked ivory, alcoholic beverages, hazardous wastes, rollable scrap, woven fabrics of cotton, woven fabrics of synthetic stable fibers, carpets and other floor coverings, articles of apparel and clothing accessories, bed linen, toilet linen and kitchen linen, tarpaulin and tents, curtains and other furnishing articles and antiques exceeding one hundred years in age. (references)

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Arabic 

‏بياضات السرير. (various references)

French

draps de lit. (various references)

German

bettwäsche (bedclothes). (various references)

Hebrew 

לב� י מט�". (various references)

Hungarian

ágynemű (bedclothes, bedding, linen, sheets). (various references)

Italian

biancheria da letto (bed-clothes, bedding), lenzuola (bedclothes). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

タイ国 (dinner suit, taxi, Thailand, towel, towel-blanket, towelket, town, tuxedo, type of bed linen resembling a large beach towel and used to cover oneself in hot weather). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

タウルケット (towelket, type of bed linen resembling a large beach towel and used to cover oneself in hot weather). (various references)

Manx

aanrit lhiabbagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

edbay inenlay.(various references)

Portuguese

roupa de cama (bed clothes, clothes). (various references)

Spanish

ropa de cama (bedclothes, bedding, linen), ropa blanca (linen, whites). (various references)

Swedish

sänglinne. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: belied, bindle, binned, blende, edible, indene, linden.

-3 letters: bedel, belie, benne, benni, bield, bleed, blend, blind, diene, edile, elide, inned, leben, lined, linen.

-4 letters: been, bend, bene, bide, bile, bind, bine, bled, blin, deil, dele, deli, dene, deni, diel, dine, eide, idle, lend, lied, lien, line, linn, need, nene, nide, nine.

-5 letters: bed, bee.

+1 letter: nonedible.

+2 letters: reblending, undeniable.

+3 letters: blindnesses, condensible, emboldening, indefinable, undefinable.

+4 letters: indeclinable, indefensible, indefensibly, indefinables, linebreeding.

+5 letters: indiscernible, indispensable, linebreedings, nondeductible, nondeliberate.