Batiste.
The fabric is so called from Baptiste of Cambrai, who first manufactured it.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
The fabric is so called from Baptiste of Cambrai, who first manufactured it.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.