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Bom"bast
(bm"bst or bm"bst; 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.]
A candle with a wick of bombast.
Lupton.
2. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding. [Obs.]
How now, my sweet creature of bombast!
Shak.
Doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of bombast at least.
Stubbes.
3. Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.
Yet noisy bombast carefully avoid.
Dryden.

Bom"bast
a.High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.
[He] evades them with a bombast circumstance,
Horribly stuffed with epithets of war.
Shak.
Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way.
Cowley.

Bombast"
(bmbst" or bmbst"), v. t.To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. [Obs.]
Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed.
Drayton.



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