bombycinous

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;

The softer sex now come into our sight, Robed in their garbs of fashion heteroclite; Superimposed by their headgear pennigerous, Gaily bedecked with stuffs bombycinous, In radiant pulchritude their ways pursuing, Each novel fashion hypercritically viewing.

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

Dallering performed the titillation and four more bombycinous bottles displayed their poetic countenances upon the little round table, soon to be deprived of their supernal fragrance and beauty.

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.

Type of paper: bombycinous