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Definition of muslin noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

muslin

noun
 
/ˈmʌzlɪn/
 
/ˈmʌzlɪn/
[uncountable]
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  1. a type of fine cotton cloth that you can almost see through, used, especially in the past, for making clothes and curtainsTopics Clothes and Fashionc2
    Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French mousseline, from Italian mussolina, from Mussolo ‘Mosul’, a city in northern Iraq, where it was first manufactured.
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