MUSLIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does muslin mean? 

• MUSLIN (noun)
  The noun MUSLIN has 1 sense:

1. plain-woven cotton fabric

  Familiarity information: MUSLIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUSLIN (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 

And you can work on muslin and canvas?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

You know I wanted you, when we first came, not to buy that sprigged muslin, but you would.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

A white hat and blue feather, a muslin dress to match, and the loveliest mantle you ever saw.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I shall send for my clothes when I get to Longbourn; but I wish you would tell Sally to mend a great slit in my worked muslin gown before they are packed up.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

La! if you have not got your spotted muslin on!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

A draggled muslin cap on his head and a dirty gunny-sack about his slim hips proclaimed him cook of the decidedly dirty ship’s galley in which I found myself.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Such a beautiful little house as it is, with everything so bright and new; with the flowers on the carpets looking as if freshly gathered, and the green leaves on the paper as if they had just come out; with the spotless muslin curtains, and the blushing rose-coloured furniture, and Dora's garden hat with the blue ribbon—do I remember, now, how I loved her in such another hat when I first knew her!—already hanging on its little peg; the guitar-case quite at home on its heels in a corner; and everybody tumbling over Jip's pagoda, which is much too big for the establishment.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Emma watched them in, and then joined Harriet at the interesting counter,—trying, with all the force of her own mind, to convince her that if she wanted plain muslin it was of no use to look at figured; and that a blue ribbon, be it ever so beautiful, would still never match her yellow pattern.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I gave but five shillings a yard for it, and a true Indian muslin.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Of her daughters, the eldest, Amy, was rather little: naive, and child-like in face and manner, and piquant in form; her white muslin dress and blue sash became her well.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)