mungo
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mungos
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of mungo
First recorded in 1800–10; origin uncertain
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The cheaper grades are manufactured from a fine-fibered wool and shoddy, with low grades of shoddy and mungo for back.
From Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades by William H. (William Henry) Dooley
The following are the most important substitutes: noils, shoddy, mungo, extract-wool, and flocks.
From Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades by William H. (William Henry) Dooley
Before the fibrous mungo is obtained, the rags have to pass through the following necessary preliminary operations: A. Dusting.
From Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades by William H. (William Henry) Dooley
They are useful for blending with mungo and shoddy, to give to these remanufactured materials that springy, bulky character which they lack.
From Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades by William H. (William Henry) Dooley
Shoddy, mungo, and a liberal mixture of cotton to hold it together, blended in the many colorings, help to cover the deception.
From Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades by William H. (William Henry) Dooley
The natives state that the Mangouste resorts on such occasions to the Ophiorhiza mungos, whose root is reputed a specific for serpents' bites.
From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Philip Henry Gosse
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