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Batiste

Ba-tiste′

,
Noun.
[F.
batiste
, from the name of the alleged first maker,
Baptiste
of Cambrai.
Littré.
]
Originally, cambric or lawn of fine linen; now applied also to cloth of similar texture made of cotton.

Definition 2024


batiste

batiste

English

Noun

batiste (countable and uncountable, plural batistes)

  1. A fine cloth made from cotton or linen; cambric.
    • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 104
      Clad in a Persian-Renaissance gown and a widow's tiara of white batiste, Mrs Thoroughfare, in all the ferment of a Marriage-Christening, left her chamber on vapoury autumn day and descending a few stairs, and climbing a few others, knocked a trifle brusquely at her son's wife's door.
    • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 88:
      He had started to stroke her, shivering, staring ahead, following with a blind man's hand the dip of her spine through the batiste.

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French

Noun

batiste f (plural batistes)

  1. cambric

Italian

Noun

batiste f

  1. plural of batista

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Spanish

Verb

batiste

  1. Informal second-person singular () preterite indicative form of batir.