muslin
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Etymology edit
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.").
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
muslin (usually uncountable, plural muslins)
- (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.
- (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.
- 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.
- Woman as sex object; prostitute, as in a bit of muslin.
- 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 51, in The History of Pendennis. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
- "That was a pretty bit of muslin hanging on your arm—who was she?” asked the fascinating student.
Derived terms edit
- See “muslin”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Translations edit
thin cotton cloth
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very different styles of fabric — see fabric
thin fabric used for bedlinen
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dressmaker's pattern
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moth
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References edit
- “muslin”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “muslin”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
Romanian edit
Noun edit
muslin n (plural muslinuri)
- Alternative form of muselină
Declension edit
Declension of muslin
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) muslin | muslinul | (niște) muslinuri | muslinurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) muslin | muslinului | (unor) muslinuri | muslinurilor |
vocative | muslinule | muslinurilor |