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batiste|bəˈtiːst| Also 7 baptist. [a. F. batiste = Baptiste, 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.] The French word for cambric; applied, in commerce, to a fine light fabric of the same texture, but differently finished, and made of cotton as well as of linen. Often attrib.
1697C'tess D'Aunoy's Trav. (1706) 155 A sort of a Gown made of their Baptist Cloth very fine. 1863B. Taylor H. Thurston xviii. 240 Wiped her eyes with a very small batiste handkerchief. 1880M. E. Braddon Asph. I. vi. 188 A graceful, gracious figure in a pale yellow batiste gown. |