bombazine

• bombasine, bombazin, bombasin

From Middle French bombasin, from Late Latin bombasinum, ultimately from bombyx (“silkworm”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɒmbəziːn/, /ˈbʌmbəziːn/

bombazine (countable and uncountable, plural bombazines)

1. A twilled or corded fabric made from silk, wool, or cotton dyed black.
   • 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 144:

     I watched the animated widows in their bombazine dresses, capping each other's memories.

• bombasine

From Middle French bombasin (m), in the feminine form; Late Latin bombasinum, ultimately from bombyx (“silkworm”).

IPA^(key): /bɔ̃.ba.zin/

bombazine f (plural bombazines)

1. bombazine

   2012, Anne Perry, Dorchester Terrace:

   Peut-être portait-elle des bottines à talon plus haut sous le volant de sa jupe en bombazine.

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• bombazina

Borrowed from Italian bambagino.[1][2]

• Hyphenation: bom‧ba‧zi‧ne

bombazine f (plural bombazines)

1. corduroy (heavy fabric with vertical ribs)

   calças de bombazine ― corduroy pants