Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sort of thin woolen cloth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A sort of thin woolen cloth. It is of various colors, and may be plain or twilled.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A kind of thin
woollen cloth that may be eitherplain ortwilled .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This is a good plan for old bombazet-curtains, dessert-cloths, old flannel for desk coverings, &c.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets Daniel Young
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This is a good plan for old bombazet curtains, dessert cloths, old flannel for covering a desk, &c; it is likewise a handsome color for ribbons.
The American Frugal Housewife Lydia Maria Francis Child 1841
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This is likewise excellent for taking out spots from bombazine, bombazet, &c.
The American Frugal Housewife Lydia Maria Francis Child 1841
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"Oh, Aunt Sukey," she said, as she buttoned up her blue bombazet pelisse -- "oh, to think that we had got into such an interesting part of
Her Mother's Secret Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859
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She took the dress -- it was of some fine bombazet, -- gazed at it, with a curious and melancholy eye, and then shook her head and said, -- it was a mistake: -- "I will never put on that dress," she observed, "because it would be bad luck to Abe.
Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. II. 1832
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