Also casinet. [? A factitious name suggested by cassimere.] A light mixed cloth, a modification of cassimere, with the warp of cotton, and the weft of very fine wool, or wool and silk.
1846. in Worcester.
1863. Dicey, Federal St., I. 255. Casinet pants, and yellow gauntlet gloves.
1881. Echo, 2 Feb. 1/5. Scarlet woollen blankets pay 51 per cent. on their value … cassinetts, 135 per cent.
