muslin
Meanings
Plural: muslins
Noun
- plain-woven cotton fabric
- Any of several varieties of thin cotton cloth.
- Fabric made of cotton, flax (linen), hemp, or silk, finely or coarsely woven.
- Any of a wide variety of tightly-woven thin fabrics, especially those used for bedlinen.
- Woven cotton or linen fabrics, especially when used for items other than garments.
- 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.
Origin / Etymology
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."). Doublet of mousseline.
Scrabble Score: 8
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Words With Friends Score: 12
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