Poplin (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Poplin" in English language version.

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Raynbird, William; Raynbird, Hugh (1849). On the Agriculture of Suffolk. Longman and Company. p. 286.
Boucoiran, Louis (1875). Dictionnaire analogique & étymologique des idiomes. p. 1003.
Library of Congress Subject Headings. 2007. p. 5850.
Cave, Nigel (29 March 1990). "Poperinge (WWI)/Vlamertinge". Battleground Europe: A Guide to Battlefields in France & Flanders. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Wharncliffe. p. 86. ISBN 9781871647020. Retrieved 20 December 2022. [...] Poperinge gave us the word 'poplin'.
Tortora, Phyllis G.; Johnson, Ingrid (17 September 2013). The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles. A&C Black. ISBN 9781609015350. When it was introduced in the U.S. during the early 1920s, the British name poplin was not used because it was felt that this connoted a heavier fabric. Instead the name broadcloth was given with relatively little reason for the choice of term.
Tortora, Phyllis G.; Johnson, Ingrid (17 September 2013). The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles. A&C Black. ISBN 9781609015350.

One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Poplin". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 90.

"poplin". Oxford English Dictionary (online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.) - "Alteration by folk etymology (after pope n.1) of French †papeline (1667), apparently a transferred use of a form (with -l- for -r- ) of the name of Poperinge, a town in Flanders [...] noted for its textile production [...]. French popeline (1735) is apparently reborrowed < English."