Usually means: Lightweight cotton fabric, finely woven.
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  1. muslin: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. muslin: Merriam-Webster
  3. muslin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. muslin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. muslin: Collins English Dictionary
  6. muslin: Vocabulary.com
  7. Muslin, muslin: Wordnik
  8. muslin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. muslin: Wiktionary
  10. muslin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. muslin: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. muslin: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Muslin, muslin: Dictionary.com
  14. muslin: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. muslin: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Muslin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Muslin: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. muslin: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. muslin: Rhymezone
  20. muslin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. muslin: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Muslin: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. Muslin: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. muslin: FreeDictionary.org
  25. muslin: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  26. muslin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  27. muslin: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. muslin: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. muslin: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Fabric Glossary (No longer online)
  3. FASHION AND DESIGN (No longer online)

(Note: See muslins as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (textile) Any of several varieties of thin cotton cloth.
noun:  (US) Fabric made of cotton, flax (linen), hemp, or silk, finely or coarsely woven.
noun:  Any of a wide variety of tightly-woven thin fabrics, especially those used for bedlinen.
noun:  (US) Woven cotton or linen fabrics, especially when used for items other than garments.
noun:  (countable) A dressmaker's pattern made from inexpensive cloth for fitting.
noun:  Any of several different moths, especially the muslin moth, Diaphora mendica.
noun:  Woman as sex object; prostitute, as in a bit of muslin.

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