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Definition of Bombazines
1. bombazine [n] - See also: bombazine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bombazines
Literary usage of Bombazines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit Court of the United by William Powell Mason (1831)
"Clarke et aL full of the duties, specifying the goods, and the duties payable on
each kind, and among them bombazines of the value, with the charges, ..."
2. A Comprehensive History of the Woollen and Worsted Manufactures, and the by James Bischoff (1842)
"... it is principally used for bombazines, and then sold in the foreign markets.
The difference of price it produces, when manufactured, ..."
3. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1836)
"The bombazines were consequently equally uneven. ... A large demand was immediately
created for coloured bombazines; and this manufacture alone employed in ..."
4. The Young Housekeeper's Friend by Cornelius (1862)
"bombazines if not badly soiled, can be sponged, in the same way as the Thibet
cloths. ... The black bombazines, and other similar fabrics worn in mourning, ..."
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