Mūs'lin, n.

n. [Fr. mousseline, It. mussolino, mussolo, Sp. mausolina, mausulina, Ger. musselin, from Mossoul, a city of Mesopotamia, L. Lat. Mussula, Ar. Menzil, Maussil, Syr. Muscol, Muzol, Mosul, where it was first manufactured. Cf. MULL.] A thin, cotton cloth, of any kind.

In each of these champs [divisions of a market] you may meet with several sorts of strange merchandises; before all, in champs Agemi, where you have all sorts of cotton-works, viz., handkerchiefs, long fillets, girdles which they roll about their heads, and other sorts, by the Arabians called “mosselini” (after the country Mussoli, from whence they are brought, which is situated in Mesopotamia), by us muslin; with these do the Turkish gentlemen themselves in summer.

Leonard Rauwolf’s Journey to the Orient in 1573, translated by Ray.

Muslin de laine [Fr. mousseline de laine, woolen muslin], a woolen fabric of light texture, used for ladies’ dresses, &c.; also, a like fabric of cotton and wool.