Bombase
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Bombase is a noun meaning (historical) Cotton wool made from raw cotton, typically used as padding in clothing or as a stopper.
Meaning
(historical) Cotton wool made from raw cotton, typically used as padding in clothing or as a stopper.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) To pad with, or as with, bombase.
- (obsolete) To astonish.
Example Sentences
Need you any inke and bombase?
The countries of North Europe also imported special cloths and mixed cloths, bombases, sieves, leather goods, iron, copper, lead, tin, silver and ironware.
Overwhelming pictorial evidence shows that the standard method of stopping at the time was wax with leather, parchment, cloth or bombase (crude cottonwool).
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.”
Word Forms
- bombases
- bombasing
- bombased
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cotton wool, cottonwool, wadding, batting, woolsey, etamine.
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