_Lungee_, _Lungi_. A cotton fabric from India. Later a richly colored fabric of silk and cotton. Wrapped a lunge about his middle (1698). A Bengal lungy or Buggess cloth (1779). Silk lungees. Boston Gazette, June 23, 1729.
_Manchester._ Cotton fabrics made in Manchester, England. Manchester cottons and Manchester rugges otherwise named Frices (1552). Linen, woolen and other goods called Manchester wares (1704). A very showy striped pink and white Manchester (1777).
_Mantua._ A silk fabric made in Italy. Best broad Italian colored Mantuas at 6/9 per yard (1709). A scarlet-flowered damask Mantua petticoat (1760).
_Medrinacks_, _Medrinix_. A coarse canvas used by tailors to stiffen doublets and collars. A sail cloth, i.e., pole-davie.
_Missenets._ Boston News-Letter, Dec. 18, 1760.
_Mockado._ A kind of cloth much used for clothing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Tuft mockado was decorated with small tufts of wool. It was first made in Flanders and at Norwich, England, by Flemish refugees. A farmer with his russet frock and mockado sleeves (1596). Crimson mochadoes to make sleeves (1617). A rich mockado doublet (1638).
_Molecy._ 2 yards, 12 s. Essex Co. (Mass.) Probate (1672).
_Nankeen._ A cotton cloth originally made at Nankin, China, from a yellow variety of cotton and afterwards made at Manchester and elsewhere of ordinary cotton and dyed yellow. Make his breeches of nankeen (1755). His nankeen small clothes were tied with 16 strings at each knee (1774).
_Niccanee._ A cotton fabric formerly imported from India. Mentioned in the London Gazette in 1712.
_Nilla._ A cotton fabric from India. There are two sorts, striped and plain, by the buyers called Bengals ... used for Gowns and Pettycoats (1696).
_Noyals_, _Noyles_, _Nowells_. A canvas fabric made at Noyal, France. Noyals canvas (1662). Vitry and noyals canvas (1721).
_Osnaburg Oznabrig_, _Ossembrike_. A coarse linen cloth formerly made at Osnabruck, Germany. Ossenbrudge for a towell to the Lye tabyll (1555). A pair of Oznabrigs trowsers (1732).
_Pack Cloth._ A stout, coarse cloth used for packing. Packed up in a bundle of pack cloth (1698).
_Padusoy_, _Padaway_. A strong corded or gross-grain silk fabric, much worn by both sexes in the eighteenth century. _Padusay_ was a kind of serge made in Padua and imported into England since 1633 or earlier. A pink plain poudesoy (1734). A laced paduasoy suit (1672). A petticoat lined with muddy-colored pattissway (1704). A glossy paduasoy (1730). A fine laced silk waistcoat of blue paduasoy (1741).