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- n. A kind of taffeta or plain silk, used for women's and also for men's wear in the eighteenth century and earlier.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A thick plain silk, generally black, and used for clerical.
Etymologies
- French armoisin. (Wiktionary)
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“On the right hand of the saloon, are the common dining and drawing rooms; the first furnished with light green; the other, with a pale pink armozeen corded with white, and both trimmed with white silk fringe.”
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she A stout plain silk, usually black, used for clerical gowns and mourning scarves. Aug 8, 2008