muslin – English noun declension

English noun forms of muslin

Noun: muslin
Singularmuslin
Pluralmuslins

Sample Sentences

  • […] my pupils leave off their thick shoes and tight old tartan pelisses, and wear silk stockings and muslin frocks, as fashionable baronets' daughters should. [1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 11, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:]
  • A bleached or unbleached thin white cotton cloth, unprinted and undyed. [Nineteen varieties are thereafter listed.] [1875, Edward H. Knight, Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, volume 2, page 1502:]
  • 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. [1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 01:]
  • Other very different styles of fabric are now indifferently called muslins, and the term is used differently on the respective sides of the Atlantic. [1875, Edward H. Knight, Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, volume 2, pages 1502–1503:]
  • Fitting this pattern is tricky, so we recommend you make a muslin first.
  • "That was a pretty bit of muslin hanging on your arm—who was she?” asked the fascinating student. [1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 51, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:]

Etymology

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. See: French Nouns 'mousseline'.

Verbs referencing "muslin"

Irish Nouns muislín.