bombastedadj.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > having specific parts > padding
stuffed1467
bombast1575
bombasted1583
bummed1611
gamboised1821
1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Eii Stuffed, bombasted and sewed.
1611 G. Markham Countrey Contentm. (1649) 111 Which Hats are soft bumbasted roules of leather.
1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. 224 Your garments playted, bumbasted, loose hanged.
2. Inflated, turgid (language). archaic.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > inflated or bombastic
fleshyc1369
windya1382
unmeasureda1425
puffing1566
embossed1578
puffed1587
bombasted1589
fustian1592
puffya1594
full-mouthed1594
orificial1594
gouty1595
swelling1597
mouth-filling1598
taffeta1598
bombast1601
tiptoe-strouting1602
turgidous1602
swollen1605
dropsieda1616
exsufflicatea1616
turgent1621
ampullous1622
tympanous1625
high-flown1632
tumorousa1637
blustered1638
tumid1648
bombastical1649
ranting1650
inflated1652
tuftaffetya1658
pompiona1670
bombastic1704
dropsical1721
thundering1725
turgid1725
exsuffolate1744
Lexiphanic1767
hi cockalorum1783
Ossianic1788
mouthing1814
mouthy1827
sophomoric1837
highfalutin1839
sophomorical1847
spread eagle1853
tumescent1882
Herodian1886
Ossianesque1889
Barnumesque1890
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxii. 217 Vsing such bombasted wordes, as seeme altogether farced full of winde.
1631 S. Jerome Arraignem. Whole Creature xi. §1. 99 With braggodokean and bumbasted words.
1829 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 39 103 The bombasted heroics of Dryden's tragedy.
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a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. i. §8. 190 Leontinus Gorgias, that bombasted Sophister.
1620 J. Melton Astrologaster 15 The souldiers bumbasted Tongue.
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