batiste
see also: Batiste
Pronunciation
Batiste
Proper noun
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see also: Batiste
Pronunciation
- IPA: /bəˈtiːst/
batiste
- A fine cloth made from cotton or linen; cambric.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 104
- Clad in a Persian-Renaissance gown and a widow's tiara of white batiste, Mrs Thoroughfare, in all the ferment of a Marriage-Christening, left her chamber on vapoury autumn day and descending a few stairs, and climbing a few others, knocked a trifle brusquely at her son's wife's door.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 88:
- He had started to stroke her, shivering, staring ahead, following with a blind man's hand the dip of her spine through the batiste.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 104
- Russian: бати́ст
Batiste
Proper noun
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