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.

Common collocations

• black bombazine Adjective + noun

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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