noun. A fine twilled fabric usually of silk and worsted or cotton, traditionally dyed black and used for mourning clothes.

noun. Raw cotton.

noun. Originally, a stuff woven of silk and wool, made in England as early as the reign of Elizabeth; afterward, a stuff made of silk alone, but apparently always of one color, and inexpensive.

noun. In modern usage, a stuff of which the warp is silk and the weft worsted. An imitation of it is made of cotton and worsted.

noun. Also spelled bombazeen, bombasin.

noun. A twilled fabric for dresses, of which the warp is silk, and the weft worsted. Black bombazine has been much used for mourning garments.

noun. A fabric made from silk, wool or cotton dyed black

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

"Still, she had no idea what supersensuous material she could reasonably have demanded of her heroine (unless it were the mythic "bombazine" that Ernest used to talk about, in his ignorant efforts to describe female apparel), or what transcendental form of cape would have satisfied her imagination."

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bombasin  bombasine