muslin
noun/ˈmʌzlɪn/
/ˈmʌzlɪn/
[uncountable]- a type of fine cotton cloth that you can almost see through, used, especially in the past, for making clothes and curtainsTopics Clothes and Fashionc2Word 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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