batiste
English
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).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bəˈtiːst/
Noun
batiste (countable and uncountable, plural batistes)
- A fine cloth made from cotton or linen; cambric.
- 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 2883294, page 29:
- 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.
- 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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Translations
fine cloth
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Anagrams
- baitest, batties, beats it, bistate
French
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
batiste f (plural batistes)
- cambric
Further reading
- “batiste”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Noun
batiste f
- plural of batista
Anagrams
- bastite, sbattei, sbietta
Spanish
Verb
batiste
- second-person singular preterite indicative of batir