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.
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Batiste
/bəˈtiːst/
Synonyms for "batiste" (5 found)
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3 entriescotton batistelinen batistesilk batiste
Collocations
6 entriesbatiste fabriccotton batistelightweight batistelinen batistesheer batistesilk batiste
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
2 entriesbatiste clothbatiste fabric
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
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.
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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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