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Examples
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"Why, there's that old bombazin cloak, that you keep on purpose to put over me when I take my afternoon's nap; you might as well give her that, -- she needs clothes."
Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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"Why, there's that old bombazin cloak, that you keep on purpose to put over me when I take my afternoon's nap; you might as well give her that, -- she needs clothes."
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I hope you have not cut off the train of your bombazin.
Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others 1796
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This being the first day of my putting on my black stuff bombazin suit, and I hope to feel no inconvenience by it, the weather being extremely hot.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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This being the first day of my putting on my black stuff bombazin suit, and I hope to feel no inconvenience by it, the weather being extremely hot.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 43: May/June 1666 Samuel Pepys 1668
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Up, and put on a new summer black bombazin suit, and so to the office; and being come now to an agreement with my barber, to keep my perriwig in good order at 20s. a-year, I am like to go very spruce, more than I used to do.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 65: May 1668 Samuel Pepys 1668
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Up, and put on a new summer black bombazin suit, and so to the office; and being come now to an agreement with my barber, to keep my perriwig in good order at 20s. a-year, I am like to go very spruce, more than I used to do.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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Up, and put on a new summer black bombazin suit, and so to the office; and being come now to an agreement with my barber, to keep my perriwig in good order at 20s. a-year, I am like to go very spruce, more than I used to do.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1668 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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This being the first day of my putting on my black stuff bombazin suit, and I hope to feel no inconvenience by it, the weather being extremely hot.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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Up, and put on a new summer black bombazin suit, and so to the office; and being come now to an agreement with my barber, to keep my perriwig in good order at 20s. a-year, I am like to go very spruce, more than I used to do.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, May 1668 Pepys, Samuel 1668
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