bit of muslin

English

Noun

bit of muslin (plural bits of muslin)

1. (slang, archaic, offensive) Synonym of bit of skirt (“a sexually attractive woman”)
   • 1949, Barbara Cartland, Hazard of Hearts:

     She must have known that she was throwing her bonnet over the windmill, but for a girl like that to be a Nobleman's 'bit of muslin' is sometimes infinitely preferable to the stolid respectability of domestic service.

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary