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bombasine

bombasine is the alternative form 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 bombasine

pluralbombasines

Questions about bombasine

What is bombasine the alternative form of?
Bombasine is the alternative form of bombazine.

Words near bombasine in the dictionary

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

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