muslin
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈmʌz.lɪn/
muslin (uncountable)
- (textile) Any of several varieties of thin cotton cloth.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 11:
- ... 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, Vol.2 p.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 580270828 ↗, 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.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 11:
- (US) Fabric made of cotton, flax (linen), hemp, or silk, finely or coarsely woven.
- 1875, Edward H. Knight, Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, Vol.2 pp.1502−3:
- Other very different styles of fabric are now indifferently called muslins, and the term is used differently on the respective sides of the Atlantic.
- 1875, Edward H. Knight, Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, Vol.2 pp.1502−3:
- Any of a wide variety of tightly-woven thin fabrics, especially those used for bedlinen.
- (US) Woven cotton or linen fabrics, especially when used for items other than garments.
- (countable) A dressmaker's pattern made from inexpensive cloth for fitting.
- Any of several different moths, especially the muslin moth, Diaphora mendica.
- French: mousseline
- Italian: mussola
- Portuguese: musselina
- Russian: мусли́н
- Spanish: muselina
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