Etymology

crin

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Today it means: horsehair fabric Full definition →

French crin
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  1. French · borrowed fromcrin
  2. French · borrowed fromcrin
  3. English todaycrin

Borrowed from French crin (“horsehair”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.