What's the difference between muslin and nainsook?
Muslin
Definition:
(n.) A thin cotton, white, dyed, or printed. The name is also applied to coarser and heavier cotton goods; as, shirting and sheeting muslins.
Example Sentences:
(1) These findings suggest that single-point cortisol values can be misleading in many Muslin countries during or shortly after Ramadan.
(2) Young healthy albino male mice were subjected to repeated exposure to kerosene by wrapping each of their hind feet with a muslin cloth (1 x 10 cm) wetted with kerosene (0.1 ml).
(3) The arachnoiditis is considered to be due to an inflammatory response to muslin gauze placed close to the optic nerves and chiasm.
(4) I've started rounding up muslins and moses baskets, and my hospital bag is already packed.
(5) It has been suggested that the accompanying loss of vision is due to a muslin-induced optic neuropathy.
(6) All that was needed was a scrap of sticky muslin stretched on the roof and a spectrometer - admittedly a highly sophisticated piece of scientific equipment - to analyse the gamma rays given off by the minute particles of dust it collected.
(7) It has been famous for its muslin and jute production.
(8) I’d be rediscovering the old me, the real one that was somewhere buried beneath the piles of muslin wipes and my failing fortysomething body.
(9) And second, muslin gauze wrapping induced a foreign-body granuloma at the site (parasellar region), and resulted in development of oculomotor palsy.
(10) Wrap the spices with the herbs and garlic in muslin cloth and tie securely.
(11) The specimens were then wrapped with muslin soaked in the conditioner and covered with polythene sheeting for 1 week.
(12) They conclude that reinforcement with muscle is of little value, but that muslin gauze and plastic produced satisfactory results.
(13) Experimental venous pouch aneurysms in rats were wrapped with muscle, bovine collagen, muslin, cotton, or polyvinyl alcohol.
(14) On an informal level, too, members of the Muslin Brotherhood began taking it upon themselves to break up public dance performances – including, last month, this rather bland ballet-styled cabaret show in Cairo .
(15) Microorganisms penetrated single-wrap muslin as early as 3 days and double-wrap muslin and single-wrap two-way crepe paper in 21 to 28 days stored in open shelves.
(16) Empirical evaluations closely simulating actual use conditions were employed to compare critical property levels of commonly used muslin (140-thread) and nonwoven sterile-wraps.
(17) That is not a line from a novel but from one of Austen's 1811 letters to her sister Cassandra, in which she discloses she went shopping for fabric but was "tempted" by a pretty-coloured muslin.
(18) Familial occurrence of fistula auris congenita (ear pits) is described in a Muslin kindred of Indian origin.
(19) Microbial penetration of sterile packs was studied by using double-wrap (two layers each) muslin, single-wrap (two layers) muslin inner covering with single-wrap (one layer) two-way crepe paper outer covering, and single-wrap (two layers) muslin inner covering with single-layer BAR-BAC wrappers to wrap 20 gauze sponges (2 by 2 in.).
(20) He was intubated with a red rubber tube wrapped with aluminum tape and outermost with muslin strips.
Nainsook
Definition:
(n.) A thick sort of jaconet muslin, plain or striped, formerly made in India.