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† gossampine Obs.
Also corruptly gossanpine, gassampine, grassapine.
[a. F. gossampin the shrub Bombax pentandrum, which yields a substance similar to cotton = It. gossampino, ad. L. gossympinus (also gossypion). Cf. also It. gossipina (Florio) cloth made of this cotton: see gossipine.]
a. The shrub Bombax pentandrum.
b. The cotton-like fibre produced from it.
c. A kind of cloth made of this fibre. Also attrib.
1553Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 14 He weareth a vesture of ye silke called Gossampine. Ibid. 21 Their beddes are made of Gossampine cotton. 1594Greene & Lodge Looking Glass (1598) F iij, On his alters perfume these Turkie clothes, This gassampine and gold ile sacrifice. 1596Lodge Marg. Amer. 125 With gold and silver, silke, and gossanpine threed of many colours, were woven the images of those Gods which the Cuscans most worshipped. 1601Holland Pliny I. 363 Of the Gossampine trees..trees called Gossampines, which yeeld..cotton. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 907 These Images they made of Gossampine cotten. 1623Cockeram Eng. Dict. ii, Cotton, grassapine. |