Atlas, a kind of silk-satin manufactured in the East. The word is Arabic, and means 'smooth,' 'bare,' hence it has been applied to smooth silk cloth.
Atlas
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 546
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Atlas, a kind of silk-satin manufactured in the East. The word is Arabic, and means 'smooth,' 'bare,' hence it has been applied to smooth silk cloth.