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Bombazine

noun
(Sometimes spelled bombasin, and bombasine)
1.
A twilled fabric used for dresses; the warp is silk and the weft is worsted.





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"Bombazine" Quotes from Famous Books



... natur in me," responded Sarah, lifting her bombazine skirt with both hands as she stepped over a puddle. Her floating crape veil, bought ten years after her husband's death, with the money made from her turkeys, represented the single extravagance as ...
— The Miller Of Old Church • Ellen Glasgow
... parents. The probability is, before they leave your house they half spoil your children with kindnesses. Grandfather and grandmother are more lenient and indulgent to your children than they ever were with you. And what wonders of revelation in the bombazine pocket of the one and the sleeve of ...
— The Wedding Ring - A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those - Contemplating Matrimony • T. De Witt Talmage
... circumstances; for, though she was a "clever-handed woman," as her neighbours said, "she had a sair fecht to keep up an appearance onyway like the thing ava." In a few minutes Mrs. Douglas, in a clean cap, a muslin kerchief round her neck, a quilted black bombazine gown, and snow-white apron, followed the landlady up to the inn. In a short time she returned, the stranger lady leaning upon her arm, and the lovely child leaping like a young lamb before them. Days and weeks passed away, and the good people of ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XXIII. • Various


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


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