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BOMBAZINE, or BOMBASINE

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 190 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BOMBAZINE, or BOMBASINE , a stuff originally made of See also:silk or silk and See also:wool, and now also made of See also:cotton and wool or of wool alone. See also:Good bombazine is made with a silk warp and a worsted weft. It is twilled or corded and used for See also:dress-material. See also:Black bombazine has been used largely for See also:mourning, but the material has gone out of See also:fashion. The word is derived from the obsolete See also:French bombasin, applied originally to silk but afterwards to " See also:tree-silk " or cotton. Bombazine is said to have been made in See also:England in See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth's reign, and See also:early in the 19th See also:century it was largely made at See also:Norwich.

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