badine

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See also: badiné

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French badine

Pronunciation

Noun

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


French

Pronunciation

Adjective

badine

  1. feminine singular of badin

Noun

badine f (plural badines)

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

Verb

badine

  1. first-person singular present indicative of badiner
  2. third-person singular present indicative of badiner
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of badiner
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of badiner
  5. second-person singular imperative of badiner

Further reading


Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French badiner

Verb

badine

  1. to joke
  2. to trick, wind up

References

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