Lexicographical Neighbors of Bombasted
Literary usage of Bombasted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1895)
"But nothing can be worse than “our great bolstered and bombasted hose,” which
have lately come into fashion, and do lamentably hinder the disposition of a ..."
2. Costume in England: A History of Dress to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Frederick William Fairholt, Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon Dillon (1885)
"The breeches of the reign of Charles I. were not thus bombasted, but were loose
to the knee, where they ended in a fringe or row of ribbons, ..."
3. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1857)
"Over the doublet was worn the coat or ihe jerkin ; and the bombasted or quilted
and stuffed doublet is still the costume of the immortal Punch. ..."
4. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1857)
"Over the doublet was worn the coat or the jerkin ; and the bombasted or quilted
... bombasted and sewed, as they can neither work nor yet well play in them, ..."
5. The Ancient British Drama by Robert Dodsley (1810)
"Is this sattin doublet to be bombasted ;l with broken meat ? [Takes np tie Stool
11-'¡it lii u ,u P.ONT. Math. Ha, ha ! Go out of my doors, you rogue, ..."
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