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a flat truce between you and gravity, conspiring to fold incorrectly forever
means A broad, thin, flat piece of something — cloth, paper, metal, ice, or water — large in its surface but slight in its thickness.
from From Old English 'scēte' (a cloth) and the related 'scēat' (a corner or cloth), both traced back to a Proto-Germanic root meaning to project or shoot out — a cousin of the 'sheet' of a sail and even of the verb 'shoot.' The thread connecting them is the idea of something flung wide and stretched flat, whether across a bed or against the wind.
- thread count
- Often inflated by counting plies, not actual threads
- fitted nemesis
- No one folds the elastic one correctly, mathematicians included
- ancient luxury
- Egyptians wove linen sheets over 5,000 years ago
- ghost costume
- The classic look came from real burial shrouds
- crisp myth
- Hotel whiteness comes from bluing dye tricking your eyes
the great sheet — icelandic waterfall, largest by water volume in europe at 15,000 cubic meters per second
sheet music notation — standardized written format for musical scores, in use since the 11th century
bed sheets cotton — egyptian cotton sheets from frette, luxury bedding standard since 1860