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Definition of Batik
1. Verb. Dye with wax. "Indonesian fabrics are often batiked"
2. Noun. A dyed fabric; a removable wax is used where the dye is not wanted.
Definition of Batik
1. Noun. A wax-resist method of dyeing fabric. ¹
2. Verb. To dye fabric using the wax-resist method. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Batik
1. to dye fabric by a particular process [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Batik
Literary usage of Batik
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"About 8 o'elock on the morning of the 18th, Wellington drew up his forces in line
oT batik, but although the rain which had been ..."
2. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
"The Northern batik keys were demanded, but through the luck and coolness of Mr.
Cristie, one of the officials, they were kept out of their possession. ..."
3. Report on the Organization and Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac: To by George Brinton McClellan, United States Army of the Potomac (1864)
"Major Wood was in charge of this department, until after the batik of Antietam,
when Brig.-Gen PATRICK was appointed Provost Marshal General. ..."
4. History of Europe, from the Fall of Napoleon, in 1815, to the Accession of by Archibald Alison (1859)
"object of, in the batik charter act, 151 —free trade was forced on him, 161—
efforts of, to secure ratification of the slave-trade treaty, xliv. ..."
5. Indonesia: Sumatra, Java, Bali, Lombok, Sulawesi by David E. Henley (2000)
"batik cloth, however, is immensely popular throughout Indonesia and in many other
... In fact batik is the term used throughout the world for the wax-resist ..."
6. The Home and Foreign Review (1864)
"batik-of-England notes above fourteen millions, and, if the opinion of Mr.
Hubbard and other eminent witnesses as well as our own is correct, ..."
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