Meaning

(obsolete) silken; made of silk.

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) silken; made of silk
2. (obsolete) Of the colour of the silkworm; transparent with a yellow tint.
3. (of paper) made of cotton in imitation of parchment.

Example Sentences

and ye wassailers elide your costrels and denegate yourselves of your vinolency; and ye clinquant jillflirts, abject your elamping and bombycinous habiliments, and your bijous, and cease from your irrational calamistrations;

The softer sex now come into our sight, Robed in their garbs of fashion heteroclite; Superimposed by their headgear pennigerous, Gaily bedecked with stuffs bombycinous, In radiant pulchritude their ways pursuing, Each novel fashion hypercritically viewing.

This gorgeous agglomeration is centifidous in construction, and is exhibited in seven cyclostomous pavilions, each decked with bombycinous banners.

so that my corporeal organization was, in totality, subjected to redundant sudations, necessitating me to bring my bombycinous sudary into frequent requisition.

But what is peculiar to this disease, and distinguishes it from all others at the first glance of the eye, is the bombycinous colour of the skin, which, like that of full-grown silk worms, has a degree of transparency with a yellow tint

Dallering performed the titillation and four more bombycinous bottles displayed their poetic countenances upon the little round table, soon to be deprived of their supernal fragrance and beauty.

This defective state of the red globules is characterized, in addition to the preceding symptoms, by the bombycinous aspect of the skin

I found him anæmic, surface bombycinous; conjunctivæ greenish; abdomen very prominent; spleen greatly enlarged;

Word Forms

• more bombycinous
• most bombycinous

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