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): --
The woman wore a thick black bombazine coat.
The children were all taught by one strict lady, dressed in bombazine from head to toe.
How do you go ballistic in a bombazine gown and a mob-cap?
The accompanying music conveys the period atmosphere more subtly than any bombazine and lace.
The two young women both wore deep mourning of crape and bombazine.
Their beloved skirts of black bombazine they brought from home were ill suited to camp life.
She is dressed in severe fitted bombazine.
NYA ORD
European
May 10, 2021
DAGENS ORD
Shimmer
bombazine
