bombasin
English edit
Noun edit
bombasin (countable and uncountable, plural bombasins)
- Alternative spelling of bombazine
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 51–52:
- After the first grief, or rather fright, of Mr. Arundel's death, and when broad hems and deep crape-falls had been sufficiently discussed to have induced an uninitiated person to believe that people really died to oblige others to wear bombasin;...
French edit
Etymology edit
From 1299. From Italian bambagine, bambagia (“cotton”), from Late Latin Bambax, from Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux, “silkworm”); compare bombyx.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bombasin m (plural bombasins)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of bombazine.
- 2018, Herman Melville, translated by Philippe Jaworski, Moby-Dick, Gallimard, page 179:
- Un autre s’approche en suroît et manteau de bombasin.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References edit
- “bombasin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
From Italian bambagine, bambagia (“cotton”), from Late Latin Bambax, from Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux, “silkworm”); compare bombyx.
Noun edit
bombasin m (plural bombasins)