muslin
/ˈmʌz.lɪn/ noun C2- 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 mock-up of a garment pattern made of inexpensive fabric for the purpose of optimizing its fit on the wearer, before the garment is produced in more expensive fabric. · Fitting this pattern is tricky, so we recommend you make a muslin first.
- Any of several different moths, especially the muslin moth, Diaphora mendica.
- Woman as sex object; prostitute, as in a bit of muslin.
Plural muslins
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Midway between table and bed was the window, with an icy white muslin frill over it, and opposite it was the wash-stand.
Yes, and muslin curtains in all the windows.
Muslin curtains give a house such an air.
First of all Carrie Sloane dared Ruby Gillis to climb to a certain point in the huge old willow tree before the front door; which Ruby Gillis, albeit in mortal dread of the fat green caterpillars with which said tree was infested and with the fear of her mother before her eyes if she should tear her new muslin dress, nimbly did, to the discomfiture of the aforesaid Carrie Sloane.
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