different between jersey vs muslin

English

Etymology

From a typical fisherman's sweater used on the island of Jersey.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d???zi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d??zi/
• Rhymes: -??(?)zi
• Hyphenation: jer?sey

Noun

jersey (countable and uncountable, plural jerseys)

1. (countable) A garment knitted from wool, worn over the upper body.

   Synonym: jumper, pullover, sweater

2. (countable) A shirt worn by a member of an athletic team, usually oversized, typically depicting the athlete's name and team number as well as the team's logotype.

   Synonym: (Australian) guernsey

3. (uncountable) A type of fabric knit

Derived terms

• green jersey
• yellow jersey

Translations

Further reading

• Jersey (clothing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?ø?zi/ (in imitation of original pronunciation)
• IPA^(key): /?jersey/, [?je?rs?e?y] (Finnicized pronunciation)
• IPA^(key): /?jersei?/, [?je?rs?e?i?] (Finnicized pronunciation)

Noun

jersey

1. jersey (type of fabric knit)

   Synonym: jerseyneulos

Usage notes

• Many of the inflected forms are somewhat awkward to use, but corresponding forms of the synonymous jerseyneulos can be substituted for them.

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.z?/

Noun

jersey m (plural jerseys)

1. jersey

Further reading

• “jersey” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Alternative forms

• yérsey, yersi (Latin America)

Etymology

From English jersey.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xe?sei/, [?xe?.sei?]

Noun

jersey m (plural jerséis)

1. sweater, pullover

   Synonyms: suéter, chomba

English

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.")

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?z.l?n/

Noun

muslin (usually uncountable, plural muslins)

1. (textile) Any of several varieties of thin cotton cloth.
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 11:

     ... 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, Vol.2 p.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.

2. (US) Fabric made of cotton, flax (linen), hemp, or silk, finely or coarsely woven.
   • 1875, Edward H. Knight, Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, Vol.2 pp.1502?3:

     Other very different styles of fabric are now indifferently called muslins, and the term is used differently on the respective sides of the Atlantic.

3. Any of a wide variety of tightly-woven thin fabrics, especially those used for bedlinen.
4. (US) Woven cotton or linen fabrics, especially when used for items other than garments.
5. (countable) A dressmaker's pattern made from inexpensive cloth for fitting.
6. Any of several different moths, especially the muslin moth, Diaphora mendica.

Derived terms

• butter muslin
• See muslin in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Translations

References

• muslin at OneLook Dictionary Search
• muslin in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Sumlin, ulmins, unslim