nainsook

Nainsook is a fine, soft muslin fabric, often to used to make babies clothing.

A new woven cotton fabric called nainsook gained popularity in the 1920s for its durability.

When lawn is made using combed yarns, with a soft feel and slight luster, it is known as "nainsook".

American Heritage Dictionary - Nainsook ; Namaste : through Hindi ultimately from Sanskrit 'namas-te', which means "bowing to you".

She went into the bedroom, changed into a nainsook cotton nightgown with lace at the neck and sleeves, and set out the drawers and skirt and shirt-waist she'd wear the next morning.

At home it was clear that for six chemises she needed seventeen yards of nainsook at ninety kopecks a yard, which would come to over fifteen roubles, besides the work and the trimmings, and these were fifteen roubles gained.

In the 18th century, after the prohibition of imports in England of French cambrics, with the development of the import of Indian cotton fabrics, similar cotton fabrics, such as nainsook, from the Hindi nainsukh (eyes delight), became popular.