different between muslin vs batiste

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

English

Etymology

From French batiste, a form of Baptiste, of disputed origin (“according to Littré and Scheler from the alleged original maker, Baptiste of Cambray; according to others, from its use in wiping the heads of children after baptism” – OED).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??ti?st/

Noun

batiste (countable and uncountable, plural batistes)

1. A fine cloth made from cotton or linen; cambric.
   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 104

     Clad in a Persian-Renaissance gown and a widow's tiara of white batiste, Mrs Thoroughfare, in all the ferment of a Marriage-Christening, left her chamber on vapoury autumn day and descending a few stairs, and climbing a few others, knocked a trifle brusquely at her son's wife's door.

   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 88:

     He had started to stroke her, shivering, staring ahead, following with a blind man's hand the dip of her spine through the batiste.

Translations

Anagrams

• baitest, batties, beats it, bistate

French

Pronunciation

Noun

batiste f (plural batistes)

1. cambric

Italian

Noun

batiste f

1. plural of batista

Anagrams

• sbattei

Spanish

Verb

batiste

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) preterite indicative form of batir.