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muslin
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)
- (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.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 11:
- (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.
- 1875, Edward H. Knight, Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, Vol.2 pp.1502?3:
- 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.
- 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
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mushin
English
Etymology
Japanese ??
Noun
mushin (uncountable)
- A mental state free from anger, fear, etc., into which expert martial artists are said to enter during combat.
Anagrams
- Muhsin, Munshi, humins, munshi
Japanese
Romanization
mushin
- R?maji transcription of ???
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