"bombase" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1902, “Papers of the British School at Rome”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 41, page 130",
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          "ref": "1978, Helen McKearin, Kenneth M. Wilson, American bottles & flasks and their ancestry, page 251",
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          "ref": "1998, Giuseppe Barbieri, Carmelo Alberti, Le Venezie e l'Europa: testimoni di una civiltà sociale, page 275",
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          "text": "For Bacchus then seemed alive agen: glasse bottle emptied of wine clashing one against another, the roaring of 200 Mules and Asses, and continuall shooting and whooping of above two thousand Plebeians all the way, so amazed us; that wee thought, never any civill strangers were bombased with such a Triumph; the noyse that Vulcan and all his Cyclops make, were not comparable to these Mymallonians.",
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