muslin

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English

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A woman wearing a muslin dress

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Etymology

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From French mousseline, from Italian mussolina, from Mussolo (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."). Doublet of mousseline.

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Noun

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muslin (usually uncountable, plural muslins)

  1. (textile) Any of several varieties of thin cotton cloth.
    • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 11, in Vanity Fair [], London: Bradbury and Evans [], published 1848, →OCLC:
      [] my pupils leave off their thick shoes and tight old tartan pelisses, and wear silk stockings and muslin frocks, as fashionable baronets' daughters should.
    • 1875, Edward H. Knight, Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, volume 2, page 1502:
      A bleached or unbleached thin white cotton cloth, unprinted and undyed. [Nineteen varieties are thereafter listed.]
    • 1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 01:
      It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
  2. (US) Fabric made of cotton, flax (linen), hemp, or silk, finely or coarsely woven.
    • 1875, Edward H. Knight, Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, volume 2, pages 1502–1503:
      Other very different styles of fabric are now indifferently called muslins, and the term is used differently on the respective sides of the Atlantic.
  3. Any of a wide variety of tightly-woven thin fabrics, especially those used for bedlinen.
  4. (US) Woven cotton or linen fabrics, especially when used for items other than garments.
  5. (countable) A dressmaker's pattern made from inexpensive cloth for fitting.
  6. Any of several different moths, especially the muslin moth, Diaphora mendica.
  7. Woman as sex object; prostitute, as in a bit of muslin.

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Noun

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muslin n (plural muslinuri)

  1. Alternative form of muselină

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