muslin
noun /ˈmʌzlɪn/
/ˈmʌzlɪn/
[uncountable]- a type of fine cotton cloth that you can almost see through, used, especially in the past, for making clothes and curtainsTopics Clothes and Fashionc2Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French mousseline, from Italian mussolina, from Mussolo ‘Mosul’, a city in northern Iraq, where it was first manufactured.