The most common form of armour was the linothorax, which was a cuirass of stiff linen built up of glued layers of textile.

Mrs Hobbs was wearing a tent of stiff, pink linen.

It was a place known for stiff white linen, discreet service, excellent food, and what the Carescrian had grown to know, and respect, as "good music."

"Nay," Lady Imeyne said, smearing a greenish paste on a piece of stiff linen.

Under the noise the manservant made unrolling the stiff linen and setting it up on its frame, she whispered: "See?

Connor grimaced at the thought of fastening the stiff white linen around his neck.

By the side of the body was the gilded mask, with black and staring eyes, and the painted breast-piece of stiff linen, neither of which the thieves had found worth stealing.

Lifting the mummy, I thrust it into the sarcophagus, all of it save the gilded mask and the painted breast-piece of stiff linen.

I felt her stiff linen and the thick hair of her wig, and beneath it the hurried pounding of her heart.

Stylus in hand, she flipped through the manuscript, stopping to copy symbols onto a square of stiff linen.