资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Muslin \Mus"lin\, n. [F. mousseline; cf. It. mussolino, mussolo,
   Sp. muselina; all from Mussoul a city of Mesopotamia, Ar.
   Mausil, Syr. Mauzol, Muzol, Mosul, where it was first
   manufactured. Cf. {Mull} a kind of cloth.]
   A thin cotton, white, dyed, or printed. The name is also
   applied to coarser and heavier cotton goods; as, shirting and
   sheeting muslins.

   {Muslin cambric}. See {Cambric}.

   {Muslin delaine}, a light woolen fabric for women's dresses.
      See {Delaine}. [Written also {mousseline de laine}.]