Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A fine, plain-woven fabric made from various fibers and used especially for clothing.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A fine linen cloth made in Flanders and Picardy, of three different kinds or thicknesses; a kind of cambric.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Originally, cambric or lawn of fine linen; now applied also to cloth of similar texture made of cotton.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a thin plain-weave cotton or linen fabric; used for shirts or dresses
Etymologies
- 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). (Wiktionary)
- French, from Old French, perhaps after Baptiste of Cambrai, 13th-century textile maker. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“According to her, the basket they had found at the office door was woven of the finest wicker and lined in batiste; Eliza's nightgown was worked with French knots and the sheets edged with Brussels lace, and topping everything was a mink coverlet, an extravagance never seen in Chile.”
“The clothing included a black-and-cream herringbone tweed blazer with purple-and- gold piping, a heritage white batiste lace-trimmed blouse, and a cedar mélange shawl collar button front cardigan, as listed on the line sheet provided for the young'uns in the front row.”
“A sweet, lacy cotton batiste "teddy" with satin ribbons threaded through to bind my waist.”
“I bought the most lovely soft, pink, floral cotton for the body of the dress and white batiste for the collar.”
“I can't think of a nicer, more feminine dress to wear for summer than one of these done in a white batiste, embroidered with colourful flowers.”
“By the way, I started sewing up HInto of History's Shawl Collar dress yesterday and became stumped with the batiste collar.”
“And when she saw his nose dripping into the bowl, she gave him the white batiste handkerchief that no one had ever used before.”
“Later, when I was meeting with Oskar Pastior so I could write about his deportation to the Soviet labor camp, he told me that an elderly Russian mother had given him a handkerchief made of white batiste.”
“Because his white batiste handkerchief was hope and fear.”
“It was a combination: consolation made of batiste, and a silk-stemmed measure of his decrepitude.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘batiste’.
-
probablyankita's list
Words are all I have to take your heart away
apartheid, techno-klutz, logorrheic, gordian knot, anodyne, odor of sanctity, finders keepers, foot-in-mouth dis..., dutch uncle, masquerade, smoke signals, furtive glance and 320 more...
-
phrontistery - b
List of words from phrontistery.info
babeldom, baccate, bacchanal, bacciferous, bacciform, baccivorous, bacillicide, backstay, bactericide, baculiform, baculine, baculum and 582 more...
-
Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
-
so thin!
cotton, filmsy, tenuousic, rarenessly, gruelic, fila(orless)ment, gauzy, slimsy, amnionically, crepeilly, sliverishness, hairlineful and 34 more...
-
Reading Vocab
ulterior, warrant, syllogism, precious, impiety, maroon, aigrette, batiste, topsy-turvy ago, midnight crush, cantankerous, slovenly and 180 more...
-
Fabrics
Woven, knit and tatted fabrics. Other kinds of cloth, such as tapa and chamois are not included.
shikii, shantung, cotton, linen, tweed, wool, velour, velvet, velveteen, gabardine, chenille, silk and 550 more...
-
yardage
types of fabric
cotton, wool, silk, linen, rayon, nylon, spandex, lycra, lurex, goretex, challis, brocade and 77 more...
-
Petersburg
Words I disovered in Andrei Bely's "Petersburg."
apropos, demimonde, hussar, nuptial, triality, piquant, batiste, peregrination, appurtenance, tabouret, haft, censer and 11 more...
-
Textiles
A list from the 1911 edition of "Words: Their Spelling, Pronunciation, Definition, Application" by the Gregg Publishing Company.
aigrette, a la mode, Amazon, applique, armure, baize, balbriggan, balmoral, batiste, bedticking, bobbinet, buckram and 88 more...
-
color/textile
calico, chesterfield, bourbon, madras, seltzer, chiffon, mazarine, ascot, Lurex, zibeline, velveteen, batiste and 21 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for batiste.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.