Definition of "mozambique"

A thin gauzy dress fabric generally constructed with a cotton warp and a mohair filling. It is distinguished from mohair by its thinner and more filmy texture. High-grade mozambiques are often woven in fancy plaids and checks and complicated openwork patterns, and when of this style are intended to be made up over a foundation fabric.

1900, George S. Cole, “MOZAMBIQUE”, in Cole's Encyclopedia of Dry Goods: A Reference Book for the Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods Trade of the United States […], Chicago, New York, St. Louis: Root Newspaper Association, page 366