0 a thick, usually black, material made from wool mixed with silk or cotton, used especially in the Victorian period for making mourning clothes (= dark clothes worn when someone has died):
Their beloved skirts of black bombazine they brought from home were ill suited to camp life.
The two young women both wore deep mourning of crape and bombazine.
The accompanying music conveys the period atmosphere more subtly than any bombazine and lace.
