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See also:BOMBAZINE, or BOMBASINE
, a stuff originally made of See also:silk or silk and See also:wool, and now also made of See also:cotton and wool or of wool alone
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See also:Good See also:bombazine is made with a silk warp and a worsted weft
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It is twilled or corded and used for See also:dress-material
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See also:Black bombazine has been used largely for See also:mourning, but the material has gone out of See also:fashion
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The word is derived from the obsolete See also:French bombasin, applied originally to silk but afterwards to " See also:tree-silk " or cotton
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Bombazine is said to have been made in See also:England in See also:Queen See also: |
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