Velvet and muslin are two very different types of fabric.
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Muslin
//ˈmʌz.lɪn//
Synonyms for "muslin" (13 found)
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38 translations across 24 languages.
Arabic
4 entries- شاش noun (thin cotton cloth)
- مَوْصِلِيّ noun (thin cotton cloth)
- مَوْصِلِيّ noun (thin fabric used for bedlinen)
- مَوْصِلِيّ noun (dressmaker's pattern)
Bulgarian
2 entries- муселин noun (thin cotton cloth)
- хасе noun (thin fabric used for bedlinen)
Czech
1 entries- mušelín noun (thin cotton cloth)
Dutch
1 entries- mousseline noun (thin cotton cloth)
Esperanto
1 entries- muslino noun (thin cotton cloth)
Finnish
4 entries- hukkasiilikäs noun (moth)
- lakanakangas noun (thin fabric used for bedlinen)
- musliini noun (thin cotton cloth)
- sovitusmalli noun (dressmaker's pattern)
French
1 entries- mousseline noun (thin cotton cloth)
Georgian
1 entries- ნანსუკი noun (thin cotton cloth)
German
1 entries- Musselin noun (thin cotton cloth)
Greek
1 entries- μουσελίνα noun (thin cotton cloth)
Hindi
1 entries- मलमल noun (thin cotton cloth)
Irish
1 entries- muislín noun (thin cotton cloth)
Italian
1 entries- mussola noun (thin cotton cloth)
Japanese
4 entries- メリンス noun (thin cotton cloth)
- モス noun (thin cotton cloth)
- モスリン noun (thin cotton cloth)
- 唐縮緬 noun (thin cotton cloth)
Norman
1 entries- mousselinne noun (thin cotton cloth)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- musselin noun (thin cotton cloth)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- دلبند noun (thin cotton cloth)
Polish
1 entries- muślin noun (thin cotton cloth)
Portuguese
1 entries- musselina noun (thin cotton cloth)
Romanian
3 entries- muselin noun (thin cotton cloth)
- muselină noun (thin cotton cloth)
- muslin noun (thin cotton cloth)
Russian
1 entries- мусли́н noun (thin cotton cloth)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- muslin noun (thin cotton cloth)
- муслин noun (thin cotton cloth)
Spanish
1 entries- muselina noun (thin cotton cloth)
Tagalog
1 entries- muselina noun (thin cotton cloth)
Sample sentences
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[…] my pupils leave off their thick shoes and tight old tartan pelisses, and wear silk stockings and muslin frocks, as fashionable baronets' daughters should.
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A bleached or unbleached thin white cotton cloth, unprinted and undyed. [Nineteen varieties are thereafter listed.]
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It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
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