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bom⋅ba⋅zine
[bom-buh-zeen, bom-buh-zeen] 
bəˈzin
–noun
| a twill fabric constructed of a silk or rayon warp and worsted filling, often dyed black for mourning wear. |
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| bom·ba·zine (bŏm'bə-zēn') n. A fine twilled fabric of silk and worsted or cotton, often dyed black and used for mourning clothes. [French bombasin, from Medieval Latin bambacīnum, cotton fabric, from bombax, bombac-, cotton, from Latin bombȳx, silk, silkworm, from Greek bombūx, silkworm.] |
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Bombazine
Bom`ba*zine"\, n. [F. bombasin, LL. bombacinium, bambacinium, L. bombycinus silken, bombycinum a silk or cotton texture, fr. bombyx silk, silkworm, Gr. ?. Cf. Bombast, Bombycinous.] A twilled fabric for dresses, of which the warp is silk, and the weft worsted. Black bombazine has been much used for mourning garments. [Sometimes spelt bombasin, and bombasine.] --Tomlinson.
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bombazine
textile, usually black in colour, with a silk warp and worsted weft, or filling, woven in either plain or twill weave. Cheaper grades are woven with a rayon warp and worsted or cotton weft. Bombazine was originally made exclusively of silk and in a variety of colours, but the usual colour gradually became standardized as black because of its principal use in garb of mourning and of persons in religious orders. It was woven with silk warps and worsted wefts.
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