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{
"ref": "1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 11, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:",
"text": "[…] my pupils leave off their thick shoes and tight old tartan pelisses, and wear silk stockings and muslin frocks, as fashionable baronets' daughters should.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1875, Edward H. Knight, Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, volume 2, page 1502:",
"text": "A bleached or unbleached thin white cotton cloth, unprinted and undyed. [Nineteen varieties are thereafter listed.]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 01:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"Any of several varieties of thin cotton cloth."
],
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"(textile) Any of several varieties of thin cotton cloth."
],
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"uncountable",
"usually"
]
},
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"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1875, Edward H. Knight, Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, volume 2, pages 1502–1503:",
"text": "Other very different styles of fabric are now indifferently called muslins, and the term is used differently on the respective sides of the Atlantic.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"Fabric made of cotton, flax (linen), hemp, or silk, finely or coarsely woven."
],
"links": [
[
"linen",
"linen"
]
],
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"(US) Fabric made of cotton, flax (linen), hemp, or silk, finely or coarsely woven."
],
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"uncountable",
"usually"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Any of a wide variety of tightly-woven thin fabrics, especially those used for bedlinen."
],
"links": [
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"bedlinen",
"bedlinen"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable",
"usually"
]
},
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"categories": [
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"glosses": [
"Woven cotton or linen fabrics, especially when used for items other than garments."
],
"links": [
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"garments",
"garments"
]
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"(US) Woven cotton or linen fabrics, especially when used for items other than garments."
],
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"usually"
]
},
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"categories": [
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"glosses": [
"A dressmaker's pattern made from inexpensive cloth for fitting."
],
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"(countable) A dressmaker's pattern made from inexpensive cloth for fitting."
],
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"countable",
"usually"
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{
"categories": [
"Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa",
"Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)"
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"Any of several different moths, especially the muslin moth, Diaphora mendica."
],
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"ref": "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:",
"text": "\"That was a pretty bit of muslin hanging on your arm—who was she?” asked the fascinating student.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"Woman as sex object; prostitute, as in a bit of muslin."
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"ipa": "/ˈmʌz.lɪn/"
}
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"word": "muselin"
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "mawṣiliyy",
"sense": "thin cotton cloth",
"word": "مَوْصِلِيّ"
},
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"code": "arz",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "šāš",
"sense": "thin cotton cloth",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "شاش"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "muselin",
"sense": "thin cotton cloth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "муселин"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "thin cotton cloth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mušelín"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "thin cotton cloth",
"word": "mousseline"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "thin cotton cloth",
"word": "muslino"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "thin cotton cloth",
"word": "musliini"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "thin cotton cloth",
"word": "mousseline"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "nansuḳi",
"sense": "thin cotton cloth",
"word": "ნანსუკი"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "thin cotton cloth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Musselin"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "mouselína",
"sense": "thin cotton cloth",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "μουσελίνα"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "malmal",
"sense": "thin cotton cloth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "मलमल"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "thin cotton cloth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "muislín"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "thin cotton cloth",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mussola"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "thin cotton cloth",
"word": "モスリン"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "mosurin",
"sense": "thin cotton cloth",
"word": "毛斯綸"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "mosu",
"sense": "thin cotton cloth",
"word": "モス"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "merinsu",
"sense": "thin cotton cloth",
"word": "メリンス"
},
{
"alt": "とうちりめん",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tōchirimen",
"sense": "thin cotton cloth",
"word": "唐縮緬"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "thin cotton cloth",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mousselinne"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "dülbend",
"sense": "thin cotton cloth",
"word": "دلبند"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "thin cotton cloth",
"word": "muślin"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "thin cotton cloth",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "musselina"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "thin cotton cloth",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "muselină"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "thin cotton cloth",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "muselin"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "thin cotton cloth",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "muslin"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "muslín",
"sense": "thin cotton cloth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "мусли́н"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "thin cotton cloth",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "муслин"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "thin cotton cloth",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "muslin"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "thin cotton cloth",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "muselina"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "thin cotton cloth",
"word": "muselina"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "mawṣiliyy",
"sense": "thin fabric used for bedlinen",
"word": "مَوْصِلِيّ"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "hase",
"sense": "thin fabric used for bedlinen",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "хасе"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "thin fabric used for bedlinen",
"word": "lakanakangas"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "mawṣiliyy",
"sense": "dressmaker's pattern",
"word": "مَوْصِلِيّ"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "dressmaker's pattern",
"word": "sovitusmalli"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "moth",
"taxonomic": "Diaphora mendica",
"word": "hukkasiilikäs"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"muslin"
],
"word": "muslin"
}
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