Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fine, plain-woven fabric made from various fibers and used especially for clothing.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fine linen cloth made in Flanders and Picardy, of three different kinds or thicknesses; a kind of cambric.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Originally, cambric or lawn of fine linen; now applied also to cloth of similar texture made of cotton.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A fine
cloth made fromcotton orlinen ;cambric .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a thin plain-weave cotton or linen fabric; used for shirts or dresses
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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According to her, the basket they had found at the office door was woven of the finest wicker and lined in batiste; Eliza's nightgown was worked with French knots and the sheets edged with Brussels lace, and topping everything was a mink coverlet, an extravagance never seen in Chile.
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I bought the most lovely soft, pink, floral cotton for the body of the dress and white batiste for the collar.
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Later, when I was meeting with Oskar Pastior so I could write about his deportation to the Soviet labor camp, he told me that an elderly Russian mother had given him a handkerchief made of white batiste.
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Because his white batiste handkerchief was hope and fear.
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And when she saw his nose dripping into the bowl, she gave him the white batiste handkerchief that no one had ever used before.
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A sweet, lacy cotton batiste "teddy" with satin ribbons threaded through to bind my waist.
Alexis Marble: The Moment I Knew Alexis Marble 2011
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The clothing included a black-and-cream herringbone tweed blazer with purple-and- gold piping, a heritage white batiste lace-trimmed blouse, and a cedar mélange shawl collar button front cardigan, as listed on the line sheet provided for the young'uns in the front row.
Tweens Take the Runway Marshall Heyman 2011
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I can't think of a nicer, more feminine dress to wear for summer than one of these done in a white batiste, embroidered with colourful flowers.
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A sweet, lacy cotton batiste "teddy" with satin ribbons threaded through to bind my waist.
Alexis Marble: The Moment I Knew Alexis Marble 2011
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By the way, I started sewing up HInto of History's Shawl Collar dress yesterday and became stumped with the batiste collar.
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