bombazined

Updated: May 14, 2025

Aunt Camilla's old woman, who lived with her, and performed her household work as well as any young one, answered the knock and bade her enter. Lucina followed this portly old-woman figure, moving with a stiff wabble of black bombazined hips, like some old domestic fowl, into the east room, which was the sitting-room.

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman - Jerome, A Poor Man: A Novel