bafta

plural baftas · alternative baft · alternative baftae · alternative baftah · alternative bufta

1. countableuncountableA coarse material, usually of cotton, originally made in India.

   But really I have never heard that the up-country vrouwen were in such a violent hurry for baftas and punjums but what the ox-wagons and local stores there could keep them supplied.

   1968, R[alph] N[ixon] Currey, editor, Letters and Other Writings of a Natal Sheriff, Thomas Phipson 1815-76, Cape Town: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 171

2. countableuncountableAn imitation of this fabric.

plural BAFTAs

1. A mask sculpture, similar in purpose to an Oscar, awarded for excellence in film, television, etc.

   Ariana DeBose is doing her “thing” and trying to roll with the punches after this weekend’s BAFTA Film Awards in London. […] Under a popular Instagram post rounding up some of the most amusing memes generated from her BAFTAs performance, the actress commented on Monday, “Honestly I love this.”

   2023 February 21, Dan Heching, “Ariana DeBose ‘honestly loves’ the BAFTA memes but not the Twitter trolling”, in CNN, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2023

1. historicalFormer free trade area in Eastern Europe superseded by the EU in 2004.

plural Baftas

1. alternativeAlternative form of BAFTA.