[bom-buh-zeen, bom-buh-zeen] 
| a twill fabric constructed of a silk or rayon warp and worsted filling, often dyed black for mourning wear. |
| 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.] |
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 Bombazine was originally made exclusively of silk and in a variety of colours, but the usual colour gradually became standardized as black because of its principal use in garb of mourning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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