Meanings
nounbrown holland (uncountable)
- uncountableUnbleached holland linen.
There were a great many arm-chairs and settees covered in brown holland […].
1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter XVII, in The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC1 more example
With a shiver at the thought of the cold blue best room, always in papers and brown holland, Emily took the offered seat by the fire, almost glad she was wet, as it delayed her explanation.
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 128
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