batiste en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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).
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) A fine cloth made from cotton or linen; cambric.
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.
1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 104He had started to stroke her, shivering, staring ahead, following with a blind man's hand the dip of her spine through the batiste.
1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 88: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.
1916, “Smocking”, in The Dressmaker: A Complete Book on All Matters Connected with Sewing and Dressmaking […], 2nd revised and enlarged edition, New York, N.Y.; London: The Butterick Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 29:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| batistes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (27)
el βατίστα (fine cloth) · id batis (fine cloth) · af batis (fine cloth) · pt cambraia (fine cloth) · cs batist (fine cloth) · es batista (fine cloth) · sv batist (fine cloth) · ja バチスト (fine cloth) · bg батиста (fine cloth) · it batista (fine cloth) · ro batist (fine cloth) · vi phin (fine cloth) · eo batisto (fine cloth) · ko 바티스트 (fine cloth) · ru бати́ст (fine cloth) · tr patiska (fine cloth) · pt batista (fine cloth) · fi batisti (fine cloth) · hu batiszt (fine cloth) · ca batista (fine cloth) · nl batist (fine cloth) · de Batist (fine cloth) · kk бәтес (fine cloth) · pl batyst (fine cloth) · da batist (fine cloth) · tl batista (fine cloth) · et batist (fine cloth)