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bombasin

bombasin is the alternative spelling of bombazine.

Meaning of bombazine

Noun

bombazine (countable and uncountable, plural bombazines)

  1. A twilled or corded fabric made from silk, wool, or cotton dyed black.
    • I watched the animated widows in their bombazine dresses, capping each other's memories.2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 144

Forms of bombasin

pluralbombasins

Questions about bombasin

What is bombasin the alternative spelling of?
Bombasin is the alternative spelling of bombazine.

Words near bombasin in the dictionary

  1. bombas
  2. Bombasa
  3. bombase
  4. bombased
  5. bombases
  6. bombasin
  7. bombasine
  8. bombasines
  9. bombasing
  10. bombasins
  11. bombass

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