A fine twilled fabric of silk and worsted or cotton, often dyed black and used for mourning clothes.
ETYMOLOGY:
French bombasin, from Medieval Latin bambacnum, cotton fabric, from bombax, bombac-, cotton, from Latin bombx, silk, silkworm, from Greek bombx, silkworm.
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num, cotton fabric, from bombax, bombac-, cotton, from Latin bomb
x, silk, silkworm, from Greek bomb
x, silkworm.
