| 词汇 | muslin |
| 释义 | muslin noun[ U ] uk /ˈmʌz.lɪn/ us /ˈmʌz.lɪn/ [ U or C ]UK a very thin cotton material, or a piece of this material: 麦斯林纱，平纹细布 A 19th-century painting of a girl in a muslin dress hung on the wall.墙上挂着一幅19世纪的油画，画中的女孩身着平纹细布连衣裙。 The soured milk is strained through muslin to leave a soft ball of cheese.酸奶用平纹细布过滤后，剩下一团可以揉捏成形的软奶酪。 Elena Koroleva/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages [ C ]UK a square of thin cotton material, used especially for wiping a baby's mouth: She has prepared by stocking up on nappies and muslins. lostinbids/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages [ U ]US a plain cloth made from cotton that can be very light and thin or very heavy and thick: She sewed cheap muslin slipcovers for the couch. Kameleon007/iStock / Getty Images Plus/GettyImages Pass the stock through a muslin cloth and finish with the butter. Fashionable Indian muslins were smuggled in from the Channel Islands. She saw two packs of white towelling babygrows, nappies, wipes, a packet of dummies, and a pack of muslins. Textiles made from natural fibres bamboo bombazine burlap calico cambric dimity distaff faille felt fishnet nankeen needlecord netting oilskin organdie terry ticking towelling tulle tweed muslin | American Dictionarymuslin noun[ U ] us/ˈmʌz·lɪn/ a type of thin cotton material: a muslin shirt/blouse Examples of muslinmuslin Part of the cotton cloth consisted of fine muslin, which earned high piece rates around that time. The inner leaves were cut at the base of the petiole and the muslin cylinder was removed from the leaves. The top of each cylinder was covered with thin muslin netting to allow evaporation and airflow. The newly hatched neonates were transferred to muslin covered beakers (11.0r6.5 cm). In cages made of glass tubes the rough surface of the muslin plug is the most favourite place for depositing the eggs. The cages had a rectangular (4 cm 6 cm) window and a top opening, both covered with fine muslin to allow aeration. At 2-day intervals, the muslin covering the containers was also slightly atomized with distilled water to provide fresh water for the larvae. A pipe-maker was robbed of his muslin cravat, striped handkerchief, leather shoes and iron buckles. This slurry was filtered through muslin cloth to remove coarse debris. The homogenate was filtered through eight layers of muslin and a 50 mm nylon mesh. The mouths of the glass jars were closed with muslin. The plant was covered with a cylindrical plastic cage (11 cm in diameter and 30 cm high) with top and lateral ventilation areas covered by muslin. Plants were individually caged in muslin sleeves. Sutherland (1969a) caged single aphids in small muslin bags (1.5 inches long and < 1 inches in diameter for 24 h). Paisley, on the other hand, was known in the late eighteenth century as a center for the production of muslin with a population of highly skilled weavers (244-45). These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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