batik

plural batiks

1. countableuncountableA wax-resist method of dyeing fabric.

   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.

   2018 February 13, Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater, Grove Press, →ISBN

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   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 thing in striking combination.

   1928, Nella Larsen, “14”, in Quicksand, page 162

present singular third person batiks · participle present batiking · participle past batiked · past batiked

1. To dye fabric using the wax-resist method.