Muslin.
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.
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.