What does bombasin mean?

bombasin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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Countable; Uncountable

"After the first grief, or rather fright, of Mr. Arundel's death, and when broad hems and deep crape-falls had been sufficiently discussed to have induced an uninitiated person to believe that people really died to oblige others to wear bombasin;..."

bombasins (plural)

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