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batiste

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Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
10
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/bəˈtiːst/

Definition of batiste

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A fine cloth made from cotton or linen; cambric.
    “Smocking done in colors on fine white batiste, silk mull, or nainsook makes pretty guimpes and dresses for children and very smart blouses for women.”
    “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.”
    “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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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A fine cloth made from cotton or linen; cambric.
    “Smocking done in colors on fine white batiste, silk mull, or nainsook makes pretty guimpes and dresses for children and very smart blouses for women.”
    “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.”
    “He had started to stroke her, shivering, staring ahead, following with a blind man's hand the dip of her spine through the batiste.”

name

  1. A surname from French.

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Etymology

From French batiste, a form of Baptiste, of disputed origin (“according to Littré and Scheler from the alleged original maker, Baptiste of Cambray; according to others, from its use in wiping the heads of children after baptism” – OED).

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