Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fabric with contrasting horizontal stripes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A weave of fabrics in which stripes run transversely instead of longitudinally.
- Applied as a distinctive epithet to textile fabrics horizontally striped, of which various kinds were used for curtains, skirts, etc.: as, a bayadere grenadine, a bayadere skirt.
- noun An East Indian dancing girl.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A female dancer in the East Indies.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun countable, dated A female
dancer - noun A type of
fabric having strongly contrastingstripes
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In their childhood he had drawn for her amusement Spanish galleons, the domes of Mogul palaces, and a fantastic damsel, that he called a bayadere, languishing on a balcony.
Sacrifice Stephen French Whitman
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Governor-General 2009
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Easter Sunday 2009
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Palm Sunday 2009
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Victoria 2009
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Archive 2009-04-01 2009
qms commented on the word bayadere
Already a famed bayardere
Mata Hari began a career
Of laying and lying
And diligent spying,
A true multi-task pioneer.
April 14, 2018