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I believe I've heard it somewhere . . . ah, yes, it's a place name in German-speaking or Germanic-language-speaking countries (c/f Interlaken in Switzerland, which means "between the lakes", apparently from a Latin route, given on one site as 'interlacus', which looks too simple to me!). It also appears to be a surname in and from those countries.

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A quick search of a couple of German-English dictionaries shows that laken is also a German vocabulary word, variously translated as "sheet" or "linen" (linen being the usual material for sheets, at least in the past).

This message was edited 11/15/2004, 5:47 PM