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bombe

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Searchable Lemmata: bombe (ME).
Alternate Forms: boumbe.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Raw Material; raw cotton; found as a Middle English translation of AF cotoun in the text of Mandeville's Travels.(circa 1400 - ante 1425 ?)
1. Þise smale men wirkez wonder wele silk and bombe [F cotoun] and swilke oþer sutill werkes.(also cf. Ib. 142/17: 'In þat cuntree þai sawe ... a maner of sede, and it growez vp in smale bruschez; and of þaim þai gader boumbe [F cotoun] in grete quantitee'.] [MED Mandev.(2) ((Eg 1982) 103/17) ante 1425]
c.f.: bombace
ME.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, apparently a shortened form of bombace (q.v.), cf. Anglo-French bombace, with the variant form bombés), from Latin bombax, bombyx.
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