/bəˈtiːk/
OriginFrom Dutch batik, from Javanese bathik (ꦧꦛꦶꦏ꧀).
- countable, uncountableA 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 ”
“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.”
- To dye fabric using the wax-resist method.
Formsbatiks(plural) · batiks(present, singular, third-person) · batiking(participle, present) · batiked(participle, past) · batiked(past)