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muslin

also: muslins

The fine, often Indian-made cotton fabric that furnishes Bath's running joke about dress; Henry Tilney's mock-expert connoisseurship of muslin (he prices, judges, and buys it for his sister) is the scene that establishes his teasing charm.

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Northanger Abbey Novels · 10 mentions