stockinet
'an elastic knitted fabric used especially in making undergarments, bandages, and babies’ clothes’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. stockinett(e), stockinnet, stockingett(e) < stocking ‘close-fitting garment covering the foot and lower leg’ + -et < O.F. -et, -ette < Vulgar Lat. -ittum / -itta < et < -et < Tamil iṭṭu