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Webster 1913 Edition
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)
- 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.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 104
Translations
fine cloth