bombycinous
形容词 adj.
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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silken; made of silk
— and ye wassailers elide your costrels and denegate yourselves of your vinolency; and ye clinquant jillflirts, abject your elamping and bombycinous habiliments, and your bijous, and cease from your irrational calamistrations;
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Of the colour of the silkworm; transparent with a yellow tint.
— But what is peculiar to this disease, and distinguishes it from all others at the first glance of the eye, is the bombycinous colour of the skin, which, like that of full-grown silk worms, has a degree of transparency with a yellow tint
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made of cotton in imitation of parchment.
— The necessity of finding a substitute for parchment , which was very costly, led to the inventio , in imitation of the bombycinous paper — such was the name given to the cotton paper of the East - of paper made of rags, some say at Basle in 1170, by Greek refugees; others say at Padua in 1301, by an Italian named Pax.
词源
From Latin bombycinus. See bombazine.
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