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Flat rectangles that hold you at night and ruin your laundry's day.
means Large flat pieces of fabric, paper, or material — most famously the cloth you sleep on top of and tuck around a mattress.
from From Old English scete, kin to a root meaning to shoot or project — a thing flung out flat, stretched into a plane.
Thread countMarketing inflated it past honest measurement.
Sailing termA ship's sheet is a rope, not canvas.
Three to the windDrunk, from loose ropes making ships stagger.