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Bombazine, or '''bombasine''', is a Fabric originally made of Silk or silk and Wool , and now also made of Cotton and wool or of wool alone. Good bombazine is made with a silk Warp and a Worsted Weft . It is Twill ed or Corded and used for dress-material. Black bombazine was once used largely for Mourning wear, but the material had gone out of fashion by the beginning of the 20th Century . The word is derived from the obsolete French ''bombasin'', applied originally to silk but afterwards to tree-silk or cotton. Bombazine is said to have been made in England in Elizabeth I’s reign, and early in the 19th Century it was largely made at Norwich . Bombazine Island is off the Maine coast in Casco Bay . REFERENCES |
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