A coarse fabric or textile, possibly woven from plant fibers, mentioned in historical textile descriptions.
Origin uncertain; possibly related to Arabic or other Middle Eastern textile terminology, though historical references are scarce and meanings have shifted.
Ancient fabrics had dozens of names we've mostly forgotten—abas is a word-ghost from the textile industry that reminds us how much ordinary medieval and ancient knowledge just vanished!
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