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batiste

Noun

ba=tiste

WORDNET DICTIONARY

batiste(n = noun.artifact) Array - a thin plain-weave cotton or linen fabric; used for shirts or dresses; Array

batiste, n. [F. batiste, from the name of the alleged first maker, Baptiste of Cambrai. Littré.].

Originally, cambric or lawn of fine linen; now applied also to cloth of similar texture made of cotton. [1913 Webster]

batiste, n. & adj.
--n. a fine linen or cotton cloth.
--adj. made of batiste.

Etymology

F (earlier batiche), perh. rel. to battre BATTER(1)

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