Muslin vs Flannel - What's the difference?
muslin | flannel |
(lb) Any of several varieties of thin cotton cloth.
*1875 , Edward H. Knight, Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary , Vol.2 p.1502:
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*: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.
(lb) 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.
A term used for a wide variety of tightly-woven thin fabrics, especially those used for bedlinen.
(lb) Woven cotton or linen fabrics, especially when used for items other than garments.
A dressmaker's pattern made from inexpensive cloth for fitting.
(uncountable) A soft cloth material woven from wool, possibly combined with cotton or synthetic fibers.
* 2012 , Tom Lamont, How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world'' (in ''The Daily Telegraph , 15 November 2012)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/nov/15/mumford-sons-biggest-band-world]
(New Zealand, British) A washcloth.
(slang) Soothing plausible untruth and half truth, claptrap - ''"Don't talk flannel" [http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/56/messages/708.html][http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-synonyms/claptrap][http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19971103]
made of
As nouns the difference between muslin and flannel
is that muslin is any of several varieties of thin cotton cloth while flannel is a soft cloth material woven from wool, possibly combined with cotton or synthetic fibers.As an adjective flannel is
made of flannel.As a verb flannel is
to rub with a flannel.muslin
English
(wikipedia muslin)Noun
(en noun)- A bleached or unbleached thin white cotton cloth, unprinted and undyed. [Nineteen varieties are thereafter listed.]
References
* http://www.fabrics-manufacturers.com/muslin.htmlflannel
English
(wikipedia flannel)Alternative forms
* (l) (dialectal) * (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)Noun
- With the weather turning colder, it was time to dig out our flannel sheets and nightclothes.
- First singer and guitarist Marcus Mumford, wearing a black suit, then bassist Ted Dwane, in leather bomber and T-shirt. Next bearded banjo player Winston Marshall, his blue flannel shirt hanging loose, and pianist Ben Lovett, wrapped in a woollen coat.