Example sentences for: muslin

How can you use “muslin” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • ' Other examples of the same phenomenon include: chokey `customs station' and chowk `marketplace,' from cauki `marketplace'; mulmul (see above) and mull `soft thin muslin,' from malmal (see above); pandit `scholar; man held in high respect' and pundit `very learned; authoritative commentator,' from pandit `wise, learned'; and numdah `thick felt rug' and numnah `felt or sheepskin saddle pad,' from namda `carpet, rug.

  • The dot-screen now plays the role of a muslin or gauze curtain through which the cathedral is glimpsed, forming a vibrant haze that formalizes the image space into a kind of crystallized transparency that never quite settles into known categories of visual experience.

  • According to Najera-Ramirez the early Mariachi groups dressed like peons with white muslin shirt and pants.

  • Perhaps her fading mind called up once more the shadows of the past to float before it, and retraced, for the last time, the vanished visions of that long history--passing back and back, through the cloud of years, to older and ever older memories--to the spring woods at Osborne, so full of primroses for Lord Beaconsfield--to Lord Palmerston's queer clothes and high demeanour, and Albert's face under the green lamp, and Albert's first stag at Balmoral, and Albert in his blue and silver uniform, and the Baron coming in through a doorway, and Lord M. dreaming at Windsor with the rooks cawing in the elm-trees, and the Archbishop of Canterbury on his knees in the dawn, and the old King's turkeycock ejaculations, and Uncle Leopold's soft voice at Claremont, and Lehzen with the globes, and her mother's feathers sweeping down towards her, and a great old repeater-watch of her father's in its tortoise shell case, and a yellow rug, and some friendly flounces of sprigged muslin, and the trees and the grass at Kensington.

  • Thus, English has champac `tree' instead of campak, gharry `horse-drawn cab or carriage' instead of gari, darshan `a Hindu blessing' instead of darsan . A change of vowels or a doubling of a consonant is also not infrequent, thus giving English kunkur `variety of limestone' in lieu of kankar, mulmul `muslin' in lieu of malmal, muggar `kind of crocodile' in lieu of magar . Dozens of similar examples could be cited.


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