What is "irish linen"

Usage examples of "irish linen".

The order died on his lips as she soaked the Irish linen in turpentine.

I never see Irish linen without remembering standing at the ironing board in the laundry room, pressing your handkerchiefs into perfect white squares.

To please himself, he spread it over the pillow, where it lay like a pool of gold dust against soft Irish linen.

Then the whole boat would be visible, and you would count the shields, look for the familiar crimson boss or the green rim, and you would run with the others down to the jetty, hoping some brother or son would bring back a fancy armring, or a bolt of fine Irish linen, but mainly just that he would be there with his familiar laugh and smile, not the awful strained blinking and bloody stump like poor Unn’.

Removing his glasses he wiped his eyes with his Irish linen handkerchief.

Today, since the beginning of the night shift eight bolts of Irish linen, forty-eight inches in width before treatment, are in the first stage of degradation.

She caressed her only prized possession, a nightgown made of delicate Irish linen, carefully embroidered.

She had found them hidden under a couple of Irish linen tablecloths, of all things, in the bottom drawer of a chest in her study - studio - whatever the extraordinary, mural dominated room was called.

Massaging the customers' - dabbing away her tears with his Irish linen handkerchief - 'It's expand or die, Lou, is what it is these days.

Wedgwood plates, delicately tinted, Georgian silver, heavy and gleaming, Baccarat crystal waiting to be filled with cool white wine and sparkling water, Irish linen soft enough to sleep on.

Clean, lightly starched, white Irish linen, pressed, folded, tucked - the words themselves were almost a litany of desire for him.

Clean, lightly starched, white Irish linen, pressed, folded, tucked -- the words themselves were almost a litany of desire for him.