Meaning of badine | Babel Free

Definitions

A short, decorated switch or rod, carried by the fashionable in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Examples

“A badine, or switch⟳, dangles in the hand of the beau, whose bare head is dressed with enormous curls, and a fore-top.”

“Amidst all those shocking scenes the Due d'Orleans walked along the streets of Versailles, playing with a badine, smiling at the mob, and, in one instance, directed them with his hand which way to turn⟳.”

“Lafayette's Carriage, flaring with lights, rolls this moment… through the inner Arch of the Carrousel, — where a Lady shaded in broad gypsy-hat, ... stands aside to let⟳ it pass⟳, and has even the whim to touch⟳ a spoke of it with her badine, — light⟳ little magic rod which she calls badine, such as the Beautiful then wore”

“She had indeed issued from the palace in a plain gown and gipsy hat, carrying a badine, or slight stick⟳, such as ladies then used.”

“So one of the three, Badine, he said he had a badine with him that would wake⟳ all dead things. Even living things it would make⟳ die⟳ and then bring⟳ back with that badine.”

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