batiste

American  

[buh-teest, ba-] / bəˈtist, bæ- /

noun

1. a fine, often sheer fabric, constructed in either a plain or figured weave and made of any of various natural or synthetic fibers.

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batiste British  

/ bæˈtiːst /

noun

1. a fine plain-weave cotton fabric: used esp for shirts and dresses

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Etymology

Origin of batiste

1690–1700; < French; Middle French ( toile de ) ba ( p ) tiste, after Baptiste of Cambrai, said to have been first maker

Example Sentences

It was time to try on a draping silk batiste dress with a swirling pattern that Ms. Toledo, who names all of her carefully constructed dresses as if they were artworks, calls “Gingham Motion Gown.”

From New York Times • May 8, 2015

Already, of course, you're used to the idea of the camisoles, petticoats, ruffled panties, batiste underwear with lace or eyelet embroidery that aided and abetted Edwardian silhouettes.

From Time Magazine Archive

For hot summer afternoons batiste, dimity and organdy will be cool and fresh.

From Time Magazine Archive

Working from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. in his studio on the Swiss end of Lake Maggiore, he prepares thready-edged linen canvas or irregular pieces of batiste shirting.

From Time Magazine Archive

On a certain occasion he sent Amaranta a note from jail asking her to embroider a dozen batiste handkerchiefs with his father's initials on them.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez