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Place a coffee filter or breathable fabric, like muslin, over the top.
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Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2024
To use a bluing tablet, wrap the bluing in a cotton or muslin cloth and dip it in a basin of water, gently squeezing the cloth while stirring the blue into the water.
—Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Sep. 2024
The first public burning took place behind Santa Fe City Hall on September 3, 1926, with a six-foot figure constructed of wood, chicken wire and muslin hanging from a metal stake.
—Heather Mundt, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Aug. 2024
The room is small, and outfitted with yellowish furniture, yellow wallpaper, muslin curtains, and geraniums in the windows.
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
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Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2024
To use a bluing tablet, wrap the bluing in a cotton or muslin cloth and dip it in a basin of water, gently squeezing the cloth while stirring the blue into the water.
—Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Sep. 2024
The first public burning took place behind Santa Fe City Hall on September 3, 1926, with a six-foot figure constructed of wood, chicken wire and muslin hanging from a metal stake.
—Heather Mundt, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Aug. 2024
The room is small, and outfitted with yellowish furniture, yellow wallpaper, muslin curtains, and geraniums in the windows.
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
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“Muslin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/muslin. Accessed 11 Oct. 2024.
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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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