Meaning & use
bombazine coat
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Meaning
nouncountableold-fashioned
a coat made from bombazine, a heavy fabric woven from silk and wool or cotton, worn especially in the 19th century.
Grammar: Countable: you can say 'a bombazine coat' or 'bombazine coats'.
Patterns
- a bombazine coat
- bombazine coats
The museum displayed a black bombazine coat worn by a Victorian widow.
In the novel, the heroine wore a bombazine coat to the funeral.
Bombazine coats were popular because the fabric was durable and had a slight sheen.
Word forms
| plural | bombazine coats |
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Common combinations
- black bombazine coat
- She wore a black bombazine coat as a sign of mourning.
- bombazine coat with a silk sheen
- The bombazine coat with a silk sheen caught the light.
- wear a bombazine coat
- Wealthy women would wear a bombazine coat in winter.
Synonyms and how they differ
- mourning coat
- A mourning coat is any coat worn during bereavement; a bombazine coat specifically refers to the fabric.
Word family
- bombazine noun
- The fabric itself, a twilled material of silk and wool or cotton.
Commonly confused: bombazine coat or bombast?
bombazine coat vs bombast
Bombast means pompous or pretentious speech; bombazine is a type of cloth.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'bombazine coat' correctly?
Choose one answer.
A bombazine coat is a garment made of bombazine fabric, so sentence B fits. The others confuse the word with 'bombast' (speech), a verb, or a food.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “bombazine coat”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.