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From Frenchmousseline, from Italianmussolina, 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.").
[…] 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.]
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.
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