Long familiar with term 'cotton duck' as a form of canvas used in the sort of saddlebags the 'old boys' used when I first started cycle touring around 1980/81. I guess that's the same derivation from dutch as in the original tape.
Were I pressed I'd have assumed Duck Tape to be a brand. There's a roll of such tape in both my cars for 'get you home' type fixing of loose stuff.
There is of course an old joke about duck/duct tape and WD40:
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