The story
- Italian · derived frommussolina
- French · derived frommousseline
- English todaymuslin
From French mousseline, from Italian mussolina, from Mussolo (“Mosul”), that is Mosul in northern Iraq (compare 1875 Knight, Edward H., Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, V2 p1502: "Muslins are so called from Moussol in India."). Doublet of mousseline.
Words from the same roots
Frenchmousseline all →
mousseline
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.