Another variant spelling of duvetine; a luxury fabric with a soft, fuzzy surface.
An alternate spelling of duvetine/duvetyn, from French 'duvetine,' from 'duvet.' The -yne ending may reflect French pronunciation approximations in English.
Multiple spellings of the same word reflect the chaos of early fashion vocabulary—merchants and writers simply spelled it how it sounded to them from French!
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