badine

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See also: badiné

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French badine.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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badine (plural badines)

  1. A short, decorated switch or rod, carried by the fashionable in the 18th and 19th centuries.
    • 1798, The Gentleman's Magazine (London, England) - Volume 83, page 4:
      A badine, or switch, dangles in the hand of the beau, whose bare head is dressed with enormous curls, and a fore-top.
    • 1817, Montagu Pennington, Letters from Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, to Mrs. Montagu, Between the years 1755 and 1800:
      Amidst all those shocking scenes the Due d'Orleans walked along the streets of Versailles, playing with a badine, smiling at the mob, and, in one instance, directed them with his hand which way to turn.
    • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History:
      Lafayette's Carriage, flaring with lights, rolls this moment… through the inner Arch of the Carrousel, — where a Lady shaded in broad gypsy-hat, ... stands aside to let it pass, and has even the whim to touch a spoke of it with her badine, — light little magic rod which she calls badine, such as the Beautiful then wore
    • 1883, Sarah Tytler, Marie Antoinette: The Woman and the Queen, page 167:
      She had indeed issued from the palace in a plain gown and gipsy hat, carrying a badine, or slight stick, such as ladies then used.
    • 2007, Lee Haring, Stars and Keys: Folktales and Creolization in the Indian Ocean, →ISBN:
      So one of the three, Badine, he said he had a badine with him that would wake all dead things. Even living things it would make die and then bring back with that badine.

Anagrams

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French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ba.din/
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Adjective

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badine

  1. feminine singular of badin

Noun

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badine f (plural badines)

  1. switch (stick)
  2. a small bendy walking stick, walking cane
  3. tong (to use in a fireplace)

Verb

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badine

  1. inflection of badiner:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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Mauritian Creole

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Etymology

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From French badiner.

Verb

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badine

  1. to joke
  2. to trick, wind up

References

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  • Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français