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English
Noun
bit of muslin (plural bits of muslin)
- (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
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary