Noun

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(lb) Any of several varieties of thin cotton cloth.

*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.]

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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.

Noun

(lb) Thread or cloth made from flax fiber.

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(lb) Domestic textiles, such as tablecloths, bedding, towels, under clothes, etc., that are made of linen or linen-like fabrics of cotton or other fibers; linens.

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A light beige colour, like that of linen cloth undyed.

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