Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sort of coarse, stiff, thin muslin.—
- noun A machine-made net.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A stiff cotton fabric used by milliners for lining bonnets.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
stiff cotton fabric used bymilliners for liningbonnets .
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Examples
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Buy a pretty shaped wicker basket, or make one of stiff millinet, or thin pasteboard, cut the worsted into bunches, and sew them on, to resemble moss.
A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School Catharine Esther Beecher 1839
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In all such cases, the apiarian should be furnished with a veil, made of millinet, or some light covering which may be worn over his hat, and let down so low as to cover his face and bosom, and fixed in such a manner as to prevent their stinging.
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