| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | bom·ba·zine |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b m b -z n |
| NOUN: | A fine twilled fabric of silk and worsted or cotton, often dyed black and used for mourning clothes. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French bombasin, from Medieval Latin bambac num, cotton fabric, from bombax, bombac-, cotton, from Latin bomb x, silk, silkworm, from Greek bomb x, silkworm.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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