Definition of "bombasine" []

• A fabric made from silk, wool or cotton dyed black (noun)

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• "As a child I wondered if they ever did, or if she was just purple bombasine all the way through."
• "Thus, in course of time, the merchant becomes bound up in his ventures and his ledger; an indefinable flavour of the pharmacopoeia lingers about the physician; the bombasine and horse-hair of the lawyer eat into his soul -- his experiences are docketed in a clerkly hand, bound together with red tape, and put away in professional pigeon-holes."
• "When the army proceeds to the wars, it is followed by 5000 camels, all laden with ropes of bombasine [52]."