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Muslin

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So called from Mosul, in Asia, where it was first manufactured. (French, mousseline; Italian, mussolino.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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