Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A fabric with contrasting horizontal stripes.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A weave of fabrics in which stripes run transversely instead of longitudinally.
  • Applied as a distinctive epithet to textile fabrics horizontally striped, of which various kinds were used for curtains, skirts, etc.: as, a bayadere grenadine, a bayadere skirt.
  • noun An East Indian dancing girl.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A female dancer in the East Indies.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun countable, dated A female dancer
  • noun A type of fabric having strongly contrasting stripes

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French bayadère, from Portuguese bailadeira, dancer, from bailar, to dance, from Late Latin ballāre; see ball.]

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From French bayadère

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  • Already a famed bayardere

    Mata Hari began a career

    Of laying and lying

    And diligent spying,

    A true multi-task pioneer.

    April 14, 2018