10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BOMBASINE»
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bombasine in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Textile Manufactures in Early Modern England
Canterbury meant someone who made mixed stuffs with some silk in them.85 All
this fits in well with some later descriptions of bombasine: the warp was bourat
silk, the weft jersey or worsted, and the weave a twill with markedly high relief, the
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\law. a writing of oblir/ation ^rT m, ^ »>, ^^'a m, qr^f^T m, Bombasine, Bombazine
(>x>m'-,bum-bazen' ) [ Fr. Zwmtastn.-Low L. 6om5a**MM»».-Gr. bombyx, silk.] »•»
. a twilled or corded dress material Bombast ( boinV^um'ba^t ) [ O. Fr. bombace ...
Nilakantha Babaji Ranade, 1996
3
The Literary magnet of the belles lettres, science, and the ...
Mrs. Bombasine, of Houndsditch, is my most particular friend. She is also
something of a relation, claiming affinity from a collateral branch, and in such a
refined degree, as, 1 think, would puzzle the heads of the Herald's College to
define.
Tobias Merton (pseud), 1824
4
The Italian Cotton Industry in the Later Middle Ages, 1100-1600
Of these the most popular were the bombasine (made with hemp), the terlici (with
linen and hemp), the burdi, the valessi (valesii, valescii) and the acordolati (with
linen). Each type was susceptible of numerous variations in dimensions, weight ...
Maureen Fennell Mazzaoui, 1981
5
Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: A Dictionary of the English ...
Bom'ba-slne' (bfim'ba-ien'), n. Same as Bombazine. Bom'bast (boffi'baat or bum'
bast), n. [OF. bombace cotton, LL. bombax cotton, bombasium a doublet of cotton
; hence, wadding. See Bombasine.] 1. Originally, cotton ; later, stuffing ; padding ...
6
The Nauigation and Vyages of Lewis Wertomannus: In the Yeere ...
But some of the merchauntes, weare inner vestures or shirtes of sylke or
bombasine cloth. They go all barefooted except the priestes, whiche weare on
theyr heads certayne reyles or crestes of two spannes long, with a knotte on the
crowne ...
Lodovico de Varthema, 1884
7
Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society
In Persia is great abundance of Bombasine cotton & very fine. This groweth on a
certaine litle tree or brier, not past ye height of a mans waste, or litle more. The
tree bath a slender stalk like vnto a brier, or to a carnation gillefloure,3 with very ...
8
Early voyages and travels to Russia and Persia, by Anthony ...
Of the tree which beareth Bombasine1 cotton or Gossampine.2 In Persia is great
abundance of Bombasine cotton & very fine. This groweth on a certaine litle tree
or brier, not past ye height of a mans waste, or litle more. The tree hath a slender
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Edward Delmar Morgan, Anthony Jenkinson, Charles Henry Coote, 1886
9
Scenes of Commerce, by Land and Sea; Or, "Where Does it Come ...
It is of bombasine, a fabric with a silk warp, crossed with fine worsted. This is
manufactured most excellently at Norwich. In black, it is appropriated for
mourning ; but in colours, it constitutes an elegant article of general dress, though
now less in ...
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HOUSE OF LORDS THE SESSIONAL PAPERS 1801-1833
Gntgean. Upon the Average of the Year round, working for the best House, and
considering yourself one of the most skilful Workmen, you do not average more
than a Pound a Week ? No. Do you remember when Bombasine was very much
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