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bombazine
Quality bombazine is made with a silk warp and a worstedweft.
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Bombazine is a fabric originally made of silk or silk and wool, and now also made of cotton and wool or of wool alone.
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Look west and the Hudson, its night-dark surface like shirred bombazine, summons the image of the shipping trade.
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Bombazine, or bombasine, is a fabric originally made of silk or silk and wool, and now also made of cotton and wool or of wool alone.
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Black bombazine was once used largely for mourning wear, but the material had gone out of fashion by the beginning of the 20th century.
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Bombazine is said to have been made in England in Elizabeth I's reign, and early in the 19th century it was largely made at Norwich.
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David McVicar's revived 2007 staging takes the opera back to the Victorian era of shadowy houses and costumes of black bombazine.
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- A twilled fabric used for dresses; the warp is silk and the weft is worsted; "black bombazine is frequently used for mourning garments"
- Bombazine, or bombasine, is a fabric originally made of silk or silk and wool, and now also made of cotton and wool or of wool alone. Quality bombazine is made with a silk warp and a worsted weft. It is twilled or corded and used for dress-material. ...
- The black material of which legal gowns are made.
- Twill fabric of a silk or cotton and wool blend, usually dyed black for mourning wear.
- Warp of silk, weft of worsted, with twilled appearance
- Twilled silk and worsted fabric
