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MUSLIN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Plain-woven cotton fabric
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("muslin" is a kind of...):
cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "muslin"):
nainsook (a soft lightweight muslin used especially for babies)
organdie; organdy (a sheer stiff muslin)
Context examples:
It will look nice over my new muslin skirt, and the sash will set it off beautifully.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Their eyes were immediately wandering up in the street in quest of the officers, and nothing less than a very smart bonnet indeed, or a really new muslin in a shop window, could recall them.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
With which words she hurried into the house, as if to shake off the responsibility of my appearance; and left me standing at the garden-gate, looking disconsolately over the top of it towards the parlour window, where a muslin curtain partly undrawn in the middle, a large round green screen or fan fastened on to the windowsill, a small table, and a great chair, suggested to me that my aunt might be at that moment seated in awful state.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
But then you know, madam, muslin always turns to some account or other; Miss Morland will get enough out of it for a handkerchief, or a cap, or a cloak.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
However, to please her, I allowed Sophie to apparel her in one of her short, full muslin frocks.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Meg, who went shopping in the afternoon and got a 'sweet blue muslin', had discovered, after she had cut the breadths off, that it wouldn't wash, which mishap made her slightly cross.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
She was then proceeding to all the particulars of calico, muslin, and cambric, and would shortly have dictated some very plentiful orders, had not Jane, though with some difficulty, persuaded her to wait till her father was at leisure to be consulted.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Muslin can never be said to be wasted.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
At first, being little accustomed to learn by heart, the lessons appeared to me both long and difficult; the frequent change from task to task, too, bewildered me; and I was glad when, about three o'clock in the afternoon, Miss Smith put into my hands a border of muslin two yards long, together with needle, thimble, &c., and sent me to sit in a quiet corner of the schoolroom, with directions to hem the same.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I don't think the Parian Psyche Laurie gave lost any of its beauty because John put up the bracket it stood upon, that any upholsterer could have draped the plain muslin curtains more gracefully than Amy's artistic hand, or that any store-room was ever better provided with good wishes, merry words, and happy hopes than that in which Jo and her mother put away Meg's few boxes, barrels, and bundles, and I am morally certain that the spandy new kitchen never could have looked so cozy and neat if Hannah had not arranged every pot and pan a dozen times over, and laid the fire all ready for lighting the minute 'Mis. Brooke came home'.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
