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The muslin is an excellent and easy-to-use coverall for moms.
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Nora Colomer, FOXNews.com, 2 Sep. 2025
However, make sure to cover them after transplanting with floating row cover — a porous muslin material that allows sunlight and water to pass through but keeps white cabbage butterflies out.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 29 Aug. 2025
Their modest aircraft, a wooden biplane made of spruce and ash covered by cotton muslin, was open to the outside air.
—Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 23 Aug. 2025
Their shoulders are cooking beneath their shirts; the women have scarlet necks, the red of their arms is barely muted by muslin sleeves.
—Literary Hub, 22 July 2025
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Nora Colomer, FOXNews.com, 2 Sep. 2025
However, make sure to cover them after transplanting with floating row cover — a porous muslin material that allows sunlight and water to pass through but keeps white cabbage butterflies out.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 29 Aug. 2025
Their modest aircraft, a wooden biplane made of spruce and ash covered by cotton muslin, was open to the outside air.
—Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 23 Aug. 2025
Their shoulders are cooking beneath their shirts; the women have scarlet necks, the red of their arms is barely muted by muslin sleeves.
—Literary Hub, 22 July 2025
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“Muslin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/muslin. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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muslin
noun
mus·lin
ˈməz-lən 
: a cotton fabric of plain weave
Etymology
from French mousseline "muslin," derived from Arabic mawṣilī "of Mosul (a city in Iraq)"
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