| Leaning against the steel railing that surrounded the stairwell stood four men, dressed in green bombazine jumpsuits. |
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| This visitor, dressed in a black bombazine gown and closely veiled, was a familiar sight on the streets of St. Louis, as she took the air daily in her light carriage. |
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| Mantillas for winter wear in Spain and Latin America are frequently made of black bombazine. |
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| Queen Victoria had the reputation of being a humorless, dour battleaxe, a Terminator in bombazine. |
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| It is the death-obsessed society of the Victorians, with their bombazine and mourning brooches and seances, a culture that found its apogee in Tennyson's outpouring of grief and despair, In Memoriam, here quoted by Martin. |
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| As the decades passed, the most grotesque spectacle wasn't Lucan in drag but Kitty still believing she was glamorous, despite looking stout in bombazine frocks and lacquered hairdos. |
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| I watched the animated widows in their bombazine dresses, capping each other's memories. |
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| Maids in black bombazine and white aprons waited to serve as in bounced young girls dancing and frolicking in plaid sheath dresses, pretty sweater sets, sweet pencil skirts and striped party frocks. |
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