bombazine

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a twilled fabric traditionally made with a silk warp and worsted weft, often dyed black for mourning clothes

   Her mourning dress was cut from plain black bombazine.

From Middle French bombasin, through Medieval Latin bombasinum, ultimately from Greek bombyx, 'silkworm or silk.' Bombasine and bombazeen are historical spelling variants.

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