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Noun
batik (countable and uncountable, plural batiks)
- A wax-resist method of dyeing fabric.
- ✤ There were batik dresses in which mingled indigo, orange, green, vermilion, and black; dresses of velvet and chiffon in screaming colors, blood-red, sulphur-yellow, sea-green; and one black and white thing in striking combination.1
- ✤ Look at her, whirling around the compound wearing batik shorts and a cotton shirt, her long black hair braided into two arcs fastened with colored bands, her teeth gleaming and one slipper broken.2
Verb
batik (third-person singular simple present batiks, present participle batiking, simple past and past participle batiked)
- To dye fabric using the wax-resist method.
Etymology
Borrowed from Javanese bathik.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /bəˈtiːk/
- Audio (US): 🔊
- Rhymes: -iːk
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