Usually means: Obsolete padding material for clothes.
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  1. bumbast: Merriam-Webster
  2. bumbast: Wordnik
  3. bumbast: Wiktionary
  4. Bumbast: Dictionary.com
  5. Bumbast: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. bumbast: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Bumbast: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. bumbast: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Bumbast: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Dictionary of Corset-related Words and Terms (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Bumbast)

noun:  Obsolete form of bombast. [(archaic) Cotton, or cotton wool.]
verb:  Obsolete form of bombast. [To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad.]

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