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Bom"bast (bŏm"b&adot_;st or bŭm"b&adot_;st; 277), n. [OF. bombace cotton, LL. bombax cotton, bombasium a doublet of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. See Bombazine.] 1. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. [Obs.]
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A candle with a wick of bombast. Lupton.
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2. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding. [Obs.]
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How now, my sweet creature of bombast! Shak.
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Doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of bombast at least. Stubbes.
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3. Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.
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Yet noisy bombast carefully avoid. Dryden.
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Bom"bast, a. High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.
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[He] evades them with a bombast circumstance,
Horribly stuffed with epithets of war. Shak.
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Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way. Cowley.
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Bom*bast" (bŏm*b&adot_;st" or bŭm*b&adot_;st"), v. t. To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. [Obs.]
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Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed. Drayton.
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