Black bombazine is frequently used for mourning garments.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

When Miss Amelia pronounced "bombazine" to Laddie our side cried, "Careful, Laddie, careful! you're out of your element!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Laddie; a true blue story] Reference

The entire furniture-covering is made, we are privately informed, of "bombazine," and the explosion may be expected to be terrific.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 15, 1893] Reference

I don't believe you know a silk dress from a bombazine one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860] Reference

She smoothed her black bombazine over the laces of her corset.    From Wordnik.com.  [Give Us Forever]

In black bombazine and starched white, a woman and nurse approach.    From Wordnik.com.  [You and Rick Okasec] Reference

My working parasol is of stout black bombazine with a steel shaft.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Curse of the Pharaohs]

Invariably someone wears a "stuff gown" or one made from bombazine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Dresses In Literature (an occasional series) - A Dress A Day] Reference

But that was to be expected - along with Edna's usual black bombazine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Give Us Forever]

I wonder: is there is a modern equivalent fabric for stuff and bombazine?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Dresses In Literature (an occasional series) - A Dress A Day] Reference

She trotted up the folding steps in an energetic flurry of black bombazine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Calde of the Long Sun]

His mother must have worn a gown of black bombazine during his impressionable age.    From Wordnik.com.  [From a Girl's Point of View] Reference

I pat whatever part of her I can feel beneath the heavy folds of crepe and bombazine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold] Reference

He wore a black bombazine coat, white trousers, white waistcoat, blue necktie, and a Panama hat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference

Attleboro '"jewelry," -- lifting the marrowy camel's-hair, and rustling even the black bombazine!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859] Reference

Only one old dear wore a black bombazine dress that reminded Sarah of Edna Lowery's regular uniform.    From Wordnik.com.  [Give Us Forever]

She was very conscious of her ripped petticoat, dangling about her knees under the bombazine of her dress.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Gamble]

Settees, sofas, chairs, &c., handsomely upholstered in black bombazine, and studded with small round nails.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 25, 1891] Reference

I was asking Caroline if she thought my bombazine would do, after all; and now I do think I ought to wear my.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference

I produced my brown bombazine yesterday, and it was very much admired indeed, and I like it better than ever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference

Swiftly over the counters flashed yards of gleaming silk; more darkly, more slowly rolled the ponderous bombazine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flush: a biography] Reference

Her black straw hat was trimmed with stiff new crape, and her stiff new bombazine dress had crape collar and cuffs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balcony Stories] Reference

Both Sophie and Lucilla turned as, with much rustling to stiff bombazine, Lady Entwhistle took Mrs. Haverbuck's place.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lady of Expectations]

She sat erect in her straight-backed chair, a tall, dark woman, in a bombazine gown, with white muslin frill and turban.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864] Reference

Short, wrinkled and bent with age, she wore a bombazine gown of antique cut -- its whilom black red-rusty from time's dye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference

She was a vision in black bombazine, extending a fragile hand from the dark pit of her bath chair to stroke my smooth cheek.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Butterfly] Reference

In England a lady of the court wears, for her parent, crape and bombazine (or its equivalent in any lustreless cloth) for three months.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manners and Social Usages] Reference

Oliver's mother sent him a baize or bombazine table-cloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers] Reference

Here comes another with a sou'-wester and a bombazine cloak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference

She was sombrely magnificent this evening in black bombazine, with.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forsyte Saga - Complete] Reference

I'm sure you look very nice in your bombazine; and it's very nicely made up.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kellys and the O'Kellys] Reference

"Here is a dress for you, Ellen," she said, handing her the piece of bombazine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Scenes and Home Influence; a series of tales and sketches] Reference

There was not a widow in all the country who went to such an expense for black bombazine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of Comedy] Reference

And what wonders of revelation in the bombazine pocket of the one and the sleeve of the other!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony] Reference

She wore a tan bombazine dress, made very plainly, and carried a roomy, worn, mother-of-the-family handbag.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Song of the Lark] Reference