Definition of "batiste"

batiste

/bəˈtiːst/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural batistes
1. A fine cloth made from cotton or linen; cambric.
  Quotations
  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.
  1916, “Smocking”, in The Dressmaker: A Complete Book on All Matters Connected with Sewing and Dressmaking […], 2nd revised and enlarged edition, New York, N.Y., London: The Butterick Publishing Company, page 29
  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.
  1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 104
  He had started to stroke her, shivering, staring ahead, following with a blind man's hand the dip of her spine through the batiste.
  1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 88