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ba⋅tiste

[buh-teest, ba-]
–noun
a fine, often sheer fabric, constructed in either a plain or figured weave and made of any of various natural or synthetic fibers.

Origin:
1690–1700; < F; MF (toile de) ba(p)tiste, after Baptiste of Cambrai, said to have been first maker
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ba·tiste   (bə-tēst', bā-)   
n.  A fine, plain-woven fabric made from various fibers and used especially for clothing.

[French, from Old French, perhaps after Baptiste of Cambrai, 13th-century textile maker.]
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