bombazin

English

Noun

bombazin (countable and uncountable, plural bombazins)

  1. Alternative spelling of bombazine
    • 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XIII, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 296:
      She mourned, however, in plenty of legitimate crape; all that broad hems could do—all that black crape could do—all that bombazin could do, was done to shew her respect for the departed.
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