muslin

ˈmʌz.lɪn

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#1·11h ago

(textile) Any of several varieties of thin cotton cloth.

Origin: From , from , from Mosul, that is Mosul in northern Iraq (compare 1875 Knight, Edward H., ''Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary'', V2 p1502: "Muslins are so called from Moussol in India.").. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#2·11h ago

Any of a wide variety of tightly-woven thin fabrics, especially those used for bedlinen.

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#3·11h ago

(US) Fabric made of cotton, flax (linen), hemp, or silk, finely or coarsely woven.

Other very different styles of fabric are now indifferently called muslins, and the term is used differently on the respective sides of the Atlantic.

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