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单词 batiste
释义 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.
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