Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Byssus

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Byssus

（βύσσος). A name derived from the Hebrew brîtz, and usually applied to linen, but sometimes to very fine cotton. In it the Egyptian mummies were wrapped. (See Herod. ii. 86; Is. et Osir. 39.) Strabo even applies the word to silk.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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