Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Draped or clothed with muslin.
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- adjective Decorated with, or dressed in
muslin
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Examples
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Jewelled and muslined, your rich hair gold-netted,
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various
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There was a bassinette so be-muslined and be-ribboned and be-laced that it looked like a ball dress standing by itself in the middle of the floor; and a bathtub that looked like a hammock; and a weighing machine; and a chart for recording the daily weight; and a large table with a glass top; and a basket containing all the articles for the Lilliputian toilet; while near the fender some doll-like clothes were airing.
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Her riper charms had conquered a heart which none of her be-muslined, tittering juniors had been able to subdue; and that she was already wedded had never occurred to me as any bar to my affection.
The Golden Age 1915
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Thus they drew near the house, the Judge's dark figure half hidden among his muslined maidens, even as the dark old yews are hidden in spring by the snowy-blossomed apple-trees.
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Opposite Sidney was a small muslined and befrilled toilet-table, above which hung an eight-by-six-inch mirror, in which Sidney saw herself reflected as she devoutly hoped other people did not see her.
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Look down at it like a wasp at the muslined peach.
Last Poems Edward Thomas 1897
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Meanwhile the muslined form of Tess could be seen standing still, undecided, beside this turn-out, whose owner was talking to her.
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The people, walking, driving, or standing on their doorsteps, cheered Uncle Sam's coach with its freight of gossamer-muslined, fluttering-ribboned girls, and just behind, the gorgeously decorated haycart, driven by Abijah Flagg, bearing the jolly but inharmonious fife and drum corps.
The Flag-Raising Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889
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The windows were muslined, the rooms were wainscoted in oak, the furniture was heavy and cumbersome.
'Way Down East A Romance of New England Life Joseph Rhode Grismer 1885
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Meanwhile the muslined form of Tess could be seen standing still, undecided, beside this turn-out, whose owner was talking to her.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1884
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