Definitions | poplin |
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- A fabric of many varieties, usually made of silk and worsted, -- used especially for women's dresses.
Etymology: An alteration (taken as related to Pope) of papeline, a distortion of w:Poperinge, Poperinge, a town in Flanders which was a centre for textile production.
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