"Maharmah" is a word in ENGLISH
A muslin wrapper for the head and the lower part of the
face, worn by Turkish and Armenian women when they go abroad.
The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded waitress in her early twenties, dressed in a pink uniform with her hair tied up on her freckled neck. She was obviously tired, but she was polite and smiled at me when she took my order, and I felt a sense of guilt, almost shame, at my susceptibility and easy fondness for a young woman's smile. Because if you're forty-nine and unmarried or a widower or if you've simply chosen to live alone, you're easily flattered by a young woman's seeming attention to you, and you forget that it is often simply a deference to your age.
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batis n batiste, a fine, thin linen or muslin.
Read the complete definitionAn East India muslin, formerly used for cravats, veils, etc.
Read the complete definitionA kind of thin white muslin for ladies' dresses.
Read the complete definitionA kind of muslin used for the covers of books.
Read the complete definitionSee Book muslin.
Read the complete definitionA fabric made, in imitation of linen cambric, of fine, hardspun cotton, often with figures of various colors; -- also …
Read the complete definitionOne of lace, muslin, etc., for women, or infants
Read the complete definitionTo stiffen with starch, and then make clear by clapping with the hands; as, to clearstarch muslin.
Read the complete definitionPlain India muslin, of various qualities and widths.
Read the complete definitionA neckcloth; a piece of silk, fine muslin, or other cloth, worn by men about the neck.
Read the complete definitionMade or patterned in lines crossing each other; as, crossbarred muslin.
Read the complete definitionA pattern in cloth, paper, or other manufactured article; a design wrought out in a fabric; as, the muslin was …
Read the complete definitionAdorned with figures; marked with figures; as, figured muslin.
Read the complete definitionThat which is set in or inserted, especially a narrow strip of embroidered lace, muslin, or cambric.
Read the complete definitionA thin cotton fabric, between and muslin, used for dresses, neckcloths, etc.
Read the complete definitionkatsa n unbleached muslin cloth.
Read the complete definitionkúku n unbleached muslin. krúdu = kúku. v [A1; a2] wear or use s.t. of unbleached muslin.
Read the complete definitionA small decorative fold or flap, esp, of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress.
Read the complete definitionCoarse plain India muslins.
Read the complete definitionMuslin.
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