Muslin

muz′lin, n. a fine soft cotton fabric resembling gauze in appearance, but woven plain without any looping of the warp threads on the weft—generally uncoloured: a coarser fabric than Indian muslin, printed with coloured patterns, .: ( U.S. ) cotton cloth for shirts, bedding, .: a collector's name for several different moths.— adj. made of muslin.— adj. Mus′lined , clothed with muslin.— ns. Mus′linet , a coarse kind of muslin; Mus′lin-kale ( Scot. ), thin broth made without meat. [Fr. mou eline —It. mu olino , from Mosul in Me so pot am i a.]