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a fabric so fine it was named after a man who wove regret into linen.
means A fine, soft, plain-woven fabric of cotton, linen, or sometimes wool, prized for its lightness and used in shirts, blouses, lingerie, and handkerchiefs.
from From French batiste, traditionally traced to Baptiste de Cambrai, a 13th-century weaver of Cambrai in northern France said to have first made the cloth — though this is a popular story and may be folk etymology. The name is more securely linked to the town of Cambrai itself, which also gives English 'cambric,' a closely related fine linen. Either way the word travels with the fabric: light, pale, and woven somewhere in Picardy.
- named after
- Baptiste Cambrai, a 13th-century French weaver
- thread count
- woven so tight it nearly disappears
- royal use
- clothed kings and christened newborns alike
- the dry shampoo
- borrowed the name for that crisp, clean feel
batiste fabric — fine cotton or linen cloth produced in france and belgium since the 17th century, named after jean-baptiste cambrai