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(historical) Cotton wool made from raw cotton, typically used as padding in clothing or as a stopper..
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For all of them vſe but one and the ſame forme of habite, euen the ſlender doublet made cloſe to the body, without much quilting or bombaſe, and long hoſe plaine, without thoſe new fangled curioſities, and ridiculous ſuperfluities of panes, plaites, and other light toyes vſed with vs Engliſh men.
There drops not, infamous Kenell, quote Don-Quixote, all inflamed with choler; there drops not, I say, from her that which thou sayest, but Amber and Civet, among bombase ; and she is not blinde of an eye, or crooke-backt, but is straighter then a spindle of Guadarama: but all of you together shall pay for the great blasphemy thou hast spoken against so immense a beautie, as is that of my Mistresse.
He also quotes from William Thomas (Principal Rules of Italian Grammar, 1548), “Bucherame, buckeramme; and some there is white, made of bombase, so thinne that a man mai see through it.”
Overwhelming pictorial evidence shows that the standard method of stopping at the time was wax with leather, parchment, cloth or bombase (crude cottonwool).
Evidence that bombase (raw cotton or cotton wool) was formed into a stopper and the mouth of the bottle then covered with parchment or sized cloth appears in a mid- 16th-century recipe for water to heal all wounds.
The countries of North Europe also imported special cloths and mixed cloths, bombases, sieves, leather goods, iron, copper, lead, tin, silver and ironware.
and though the owle seeme to be greater then the pigion, by reason of the thicknesse of her feathers, yet wyll they creepe in at as little a place as the pigion wyll, so small and little is theyr bodyes, though they be bombased with feathers.
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Bombase means (historical) Cotton wool made from raw cotton, typically used as padding in clothing or as a stopper..
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