Batiste

(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:04:00

Ba*tiste" (?), n. [F. batiste, from the name of the alleged first maker, Baptiste of Cambrai. Littr'e.]

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

 

© Webster 1913.

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