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muslin
muslin:
[17] Etymologically,
muslin
is ‘cloth from Mosul’, a city in Iraq where fine cotton fabric was once made. The Arabic form
mūslin
was adopted into Italian as
mussolino
, and made its way into English via French
mousseline
.