† gossampinen.
Obsolete.
1. The shrub Bombax pentandrum.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding fibre, thatching, or basket material > [noun] > trees or shrubs yielding fibre, etc. > silk-cotton trees
gossipine1589
gossampine1601
cotton tree1670
god tree1681
silk-cotton tree1712
kapok1735
semul1809
ceiba1810
wool-tree1831
bombax1834
munguba1863
cabbage wood1885
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 363 Of the Gossampine trees..trees called Gossampines, which yeeld..cotton.
2. (a) The cotton-like fibre produced from the shrub. (b) A kind of cloth made of this fibre.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from other vegetable fibres > [noun] > made from bombax pentandrum
gossampine1553
gossipine1589
sussapine1594
1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Bvj He weareth a vesture of ye silke called Gossampine.
1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. F3 On his altars perfume these Turkie clothes, This gassampine and gold ile sacrifice.
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. ii Cotton, grassapine.
Compounds
General attributive.
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1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India f. Dviij Their beddes are made of Gossampine cotton.
1596 T. Lodge Margarite of Amer. sig. M With gold and siluer, silke, and gossanpine threed of many colours, were wouen the images of those gods, which the Cuscans most worshipped.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 363 Of the Gossampine trees..trees called Gossampines, which yeeld..cotton.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 907 These Images they made of Gossampine cotten.
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