A receptacle with a lid, for holding soiled clothing.
〈主英〉（有盖的）脏衣物筐
Example sentencesExamples
From one of the shirts in a linen basket she recovered 13 fragments of glass of which 4 were tested at random; 3 corresponded with glass from the lounge door and 1 from an unknown source.
Early beneficiaries of this belief included a tailor's son, Jean-Marie Hervagault, who insisted that he had been removed from the Temple in a linen basket.
While her Persian Blue cat ‘Cassiopeia Spandau Ballet ‘rolled around in her pink linen basket in the sunlight, we talked about the various projects that she's working on for A-R.’
Having invited him to Mrs Ford's house, they pretend that Mr Ford is returning, necessitating Falstaff's concealment in the dirty linen basket.