bit of muslin

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Noun

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bit of muslin (plural bits of muslin)

  1. (slang, archaic, offensive) Synonym of bit of skirt (a sexually attractive woman)
    • 1949, Barbara Cartland, Hazard of Hearts:
      She must have known that she was throwing her bonnet over the windmill, but for a girl like that to be a Nobleman's 'bit of muslin' is sometimes infinitely preferable to the stolid respectability of domestic service.

References

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  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary