What's the difference between muslin and tarlatan?

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.

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  • (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.

Tarlatan


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of thin, transparent muslin, used for dresses.

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