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batiste

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batiste [bə′tēst]
(textiles)
A plain-woven, sheer fabric made from fibers of relatively small diameter; texture is very soft.
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A short stout man of about thirty, in white breeches and high boots and a batiste shirt that he had evidently only just put on, standing in that room, and his valet was buttoning on to the back of his breeches a new pair of handsome silk-embroidered braces that, for some reason, attracted Rostov's attention.
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