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a type of soft cotton cloth used for covering and protecting wounds （敷伤口用的）纱布 - (specialist)
short fine fibres that come off the surface of cloth when it is being made （织物在制作过程中从表面掉落的）纤维屑，飞花 - (especially North American English) (British English usually fluff)
small soft pieces of wool, cotton, etc. that stick on the surface of cloth （毛料、棉布等的）绒毛
Word Originlate Middle English lynnet ‘flax prepared for spinning’, perhaps from Old French linette ‘linseed’, from lin ‘flax’.