Crossword clues for batiste
batiste
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Batiste \Ba*tiste"\, n. [F. batiste, from the name of the
alleged first maker, Baptiste of Cambrai.
--Littr['e].]
Originally, cambric or lawn of fine linen; now applied also
to cloth of similar texture made of cotton.
Wiktionary
n. A fine cloth made from cotton or linen; cambric.
WordNet
n. a thin plain-weave cotton or linen fabric; used for shirts or dresses
Wikipedia
Batiste is a lightweight woven fabric.
Batiste may also refer to:
- Batiste (surname)
- Batiste Madalena (1902–1988), American commercial artist
Batiste is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Alvin Batiste (1932–2007), American jazz clarinetist
- D'Anthony Batiste (born 1982), American footballer
- Édouard Batiste (1820–1876), French composer and organist
- John Batiste (born 1953), United States Army officer
- Jonathan Batiste (born 1986), American jazz pianist
- Kevin Batiste (born 1966), American baseball player
- Kim Batiste (born 1968), American baseball player
- Lionel Batiste (1931–2012), American jazz musician
- Michael Batiste (born 1977), American basketball player
- Michael Batiste (born 1970), American footballer
- Russell Batiste, Jr. (born 1965), American drummer
- Spencer Batiste (born 1945), British politician
Usage examples of "batiste".
Treadwell had also gotten out to his squad, and they had been returning to the office in dribs and drabs, catching up on things, getting the further notice that Batiste was personally okaying the overtime they needed to serve subpoenas, write their reports, do their work.
Turkish cigarettes and containing a long bright steel safety pin, folded curvilinear, a camisole of batiste with thin lace border, an accordion underskirt of blue silk moirette, all these objects being disposed irregularly on the top of a rectangular trunk, quadruple battened, having capped corners, with multicoloured labels, initialled on its fore side in white lettering B.
Stripped to the waist, Ruark leaned against the heavy footpost of his bed, his eyes like flaming golden brands as he watched Shanna saunter toward him, moving her hips with an undulating grace beneath the batiste garment.
If he ran into Batiste or one of the guys he would say he was feeling better and had decided to come in.
He had been working on his own agenda, not interested in going back to the Hall and giving Batiste the satisfaction.
Knowing that Glitsky had interviewed Johnny recently, Batiste had called Abe at home as soon as the call with the tentative I.
At her elbow a blouse in pale green batiste rag remnant, pearl buttoned, draped the newel.
Through the dining room, she almost went down crossing the kitchen floor awash with the woman on hands and knees dipping the green batiste in wide sweeps from the pail.
Deeper down, under the wet batiste remnant shorn of its buttons, she found the torn half of the envelope with the Zaire stamp URGENT PLEASE FORWARD, picking it through till the phone brought her up with her thumb to her lips, tasting blood, Mrs who.
Lizaveta Prohorovna pulled out a batiste handkerchief and nervously blew her nose.
He looked at her back, at the soft batiste chemise, the lace straps, all of it so feminine, so unlike him, alien from him, this soft creature who now belonged to him.
A heavy warp, say of cotton velvet or, as I have here, homespun, will be imprinted well on the bullet, but even a fine batiste, containing one hundred threads to the inch, will show marks.
At our entrance he sprang up, the flurrying movement of his feminine garment betraying the gathered legs of a pair of white batiste drawers around his thighs.