interlining

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noun

A cloth lining between the outer and inner layers of a garment.

UncommonScrabble 12

Meanings

nouninterlining (plural interlinings)

plural interlinings

  1. A cloth lining between the outer and inner layers of a garment.
  2. Correction or alteration by writing between the lines; interlineation.

    And the interlinings seemed to be writ in a hand different from that in which the papers were writ

    a. 1716 (date written), [Gilbert] Burnet, edited by [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Thomas Ward […], published 1724, →OCLC
  3. The scheduling of vehicles to operate more than one route, or the selling of tickets for a trip across multiple carriers
  4. The sharing of a segment of track between two rail lines.
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of interline

Synonyms & antonyms

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁n̥tér
  3. Proto-Italic*n̥ter
  4. Latininter
  5. Latininter-
  6. Englishinter-
  7. Englishlining
  8. Englishinterlining

From inter- + lining.

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “interlining,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interlining.

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