Meaning of Batiste | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A fine cloth made from cotton or linen; cambric.
   countable, uncountable
2. A surname from French.

Equivalents

Examples

“Smocking done in colors on fine white batiste, silk mull, or nainsook makes pretty guimpes and dresses for children and very smart blouses for women.”

“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.”

“He had started to stroke her, shivering, staring ahead, following with a blind man's hand the dip of her spine through the batiste.”

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