Nainsook
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Nainsook is a soft, fine, lightweight form of muslin.[1][2] Muslin encompasses a broad range of fabrics of varying weight and fineness, but is always a plain weave, cotton fabric. The English word 'nainsook', documented from 1790 onwards,[3] derives from the Hindi word nainsukh, which literally means "eye's delight".[1]
Nainsook was often used to make babies' clothing or lingerie at least until the 1920s.[4] Nainsook cotton was also often used to make bias tape in the 1950s and 1960s.
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[edit]- 1 2 "Nainsook". Merriam Webster. Merriam Webster, Inc. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
- ↑ "Nainsook". Oxford Dictionaries. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on November 5, 2014. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
- ↑ "nainsook". Oxford English Dictionary (online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
- ↑ Wells, Jane Warren (1924). Dress and Be Slender. Scranton, PA: International Textbook Publishers.
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