Bombast

Webster's Practical Dictionary- A Practical Dictionary of the Englih Language · 1884 · p. 53

bum^bast, n. Orig., cotton or soft material used as padding; hence, an inflated style; fustian.— o. High-sounding; turgid. — Bombastic, a. Characterized etc.— Bombastically, adv. Bombazet, -zette, bum'ba-zet'', Bom'bazine', -sine, -sin, -zen', n. A twilled fabric, with silk warp and worsted weft.