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  • "Why, there's that old bombazin cloak, that you keep on purpose to put over me when I take my afternoon's nap; you might as well give her that, -- she needs clothes."

    Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853

  • "Why, there's that old bombazin cloak, that you keep on purpose to put over me when I take my afternoon's nap; you might as well give her that, -- she needs clothes."

    Uncle Tom's cabin, or Life among the lowly 1852

  • I hope you have not cut off the train of your bombazin.

    Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others 1796

  • This being the first day of my putting on my black stuff bombazin suit, and I hope to feel no inconvenience by it, the weather being extremely hot.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

  • This being the first day of my putting on my black stuff bombazin suit, and I hope to feel no inconvenience by it, the weather being extremely hot.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 43: May/June 1666 Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Up, and put on a new summer black bombazin suit, and so to the office; and being come now to an agreement with my barber, to keep my perriwig in good order at 20s. a-year, I am like to go very spruce, more than I used to do.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 65: May 1668 Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Up, and put on a new summer black bombazin suit, and so to the office; and being come now to an agreement with my barber, to keep my perriwig in good order at 20s. a-year, I am like to go very spruce, more than I used to do.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Up, and put on a new summer black bombazin suit, and so to the office; and being come now to an agreement with my barber, to keep my perriwig in good order at 20s. a-year, I am like to go very spruce, more than I used to do.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1668 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

  • This being the first day of my putting on my black stuff bombazin suit, and I hope to feel no inconvenience by it, the weather being extremely hot.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Up, and put on a new summer black bombazin suit, and so to the office; and being come now to an agreement with my barber, to keep my perriwig in good order at 20s. a-year, I am like to go very spruce, more than I used to do.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys, May 1668 Pepys, Samuel 1668

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