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Say-bumbacie, Sey-bombasie, n. Also: sea-, sy(e)- and -bombacie, -sis, -bumbas(s)ie, -bumbeshe, (-bamsey). [Say n.¹ and Bombasie n.] A type of bombasine, ? finely woven like serge. Also attrib.For further examples see Bombasie n. 1584 Edinb. Test. XIV 132.
viij elnis of say bumbacie … at xx s. the eln 1610 Tailor's Acc. Bk. A 84.
Aucht elnes of blak seybamsey to be ȝour sone ane stand of claithis 1612 Edinb. Test. XLVII 87.
Ane lowise goun of sey bumbasie 1615 Glasgow Weavers 26.
To acquent him and instruct him with sey bumbasie that is brocht to him to work 1632 Inv. Newark 2a.
Of gingillane saittin seybumbassie 1639 Justiciary Cases II 371.
Ane wob of sey bombasie 1643 Dunferm. B. Rec. II 194.
Seabumbacieattrib. 1610 Tailor's Acc. Bk. A 84.
For balling to hir sey bombasis goune xiij s. iiij d. 1620 Ib. 103b.
To ȝour seabumbeshe clais 9 ellis of pleding 1621 Edinb. Test. LI 66.
Ane pair of grein sey bumbasie courtenis Ib. 86.
To … Marioune Littill ane blak sybumbasie gowne 1635 Haddington Mem. II 303.
Ane stand of gingiling sybombasie courtenes 1648 Edinb. Test. LXIII 349.
Ane reid sye bombacie coatt — 1621 Glasgow Weavers 25.
To teache … James Calder in thir four poyntis of his weifer craft, viz. the wound loome, sea bombacie loome, the playd loome, and playding 1632 Inv. Newark 3b.
Of grein seybumbassie skreines