bombazin

English

Noun

bombazin (countable and uncountable, plural bombazins)

1. Alternative spelling of bombazine
   • 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XIII, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 296:

     She mourned, however, in plenty of legitimate crape; all that broad hems could do—all that black crape could do—all that bombazin could do, was done to shew her respect for the departed.