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nounbombasin (countable and uncountable, plural bombasins)
plural bombasins
- alternativecountableuncountableAlternative spelling of bombazine.
After the first grief, or rather fright, of Mr. Arundel's death, and when broad hems and deep crape-falls had been sufficiently discussed to have induced an uninitiated person to believe that people really died to oblige others to wear bombasin;...
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 51–52
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