Obs. Also 6 bombezie. [variant of BOMBACE or BOMBASINE.]
1. Raw cotton, cotton-wool.
1576. Baker, Gesner’s Jewell of Health, 189 b. A feather or fine bombasie wette in the oyle.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, VI. xlvi. 719. Dip a little Cotton or Bombasie in the sayde milke, and lay it to your tooth.
2. = BOMBASINE 2.
1588. Record, in Law, Memorials, Pref. 33, note. 3 elles of bombezie.
