Definitions
plain-woven cotton fabric
Word origin
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."). Doublet of mousseline.
Used in a sentence
“[…] my pupils leave off their thick shoes and tight old tartan pelisses, and wear silk stockings and muslin frocks, as fashionable baronets' daughters should.”
“A bleached or unbleached thin white cotton cloth, unprinted and undyed. [Nineteen varieties are thereafter listed.]”
“Other very different styles of fabric are now indifferently called muslins, and the term is used differently on the respective sides of the Atlantic.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Plain cotton fabric”6 letters
02“Plain cotton cloth”6 letters
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