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Bombay|bɒmˈbeɪ|
The name of a city in India, used attrib. in: Bombay chair (cf. Bombay furniture); Bombay duck (see duck n.1 10); Bombay furniture, a style of furniture combining European forms with Indian ornamentation; Bombay hemp (see hemp 5); Bombay pearl (see quot.); Bombay shell, the bull's-mouth shell, Cassis rufa, used for cutting shell cameos.
1896Pall Mall Mag. Mar. 399 [They] succeeded in installing themselves in two immense Bombay Chairs.
1910Encycl. Brit. IV. 185/2 The workmen who manufacture the most artistic Bombay furniture are a special class with inherited traditions. 1967M. M. Pegler Dict. Interior Design 59 Bombay furniture, furniture manufactured in India after 1740... The furniture is a conglomeration of French and Portuguese styles and forms which are overlaid with typically elaborate and minute Indian carving.
1885Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 447/1 Most of the products of this fishery [sc. in the Persian Gulf] are known as ‘Bombay pearls’, from the fact that many of the best are sold there.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Bombay Shells. |