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Bombazine

noun

(Sometimes spelled bombasin, and bombasine)

A twilled fabric used for dresses; the warp is silk and the weft is worsted.

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Etymology of 'Bombazine'

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"Bombazine" Quotes from Famous Books

... sad mistakes at times. The once poor injured lady had been attired in canary-colored lute-string, and an ostrich plume remarkable for its enormity while she, the libeled one, had been becomingly arrayed in blue bombazine, and of any plumage imported from Araby the ...

— International Weekly Miscellany, Vol. 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850 • Various

... Laird; "I have no turn for that service, I should only have wasted bombazine on my shoulders, and flour upon my three-tailed wig—should but have lounged away my mornings in the Outer-House, and my evenings at the play-house, and acquired no more law than what would have made me a wise ...

— St. Ronan's Well • Sir Walter Scott

... was in attendance. Her travelling suit of black bombazine, trimmed with black crape, was laid out. With the assistance of her maid she slowly divested herself of her white vail and robes, and put on the black travelling dress. A black sack and a black felt hat, both deeply trimmed with crape, and ...

— The Lost Lady of Lone • E.D.E.N. Southworth

... section of the Manufactures building two dear little old women sat down to rest their tired feet in the midst of a bewildering display of pottery, whose brilliant tints contrasted strongly with the rusty crape and bombazine in ...

— The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair - Their Observations and Triumphs • Charles McCellan Stevens (AKA 'Quondam')

Words linked to "Bombazine" : textile, fabric, cloth, material