English Explanatory Dictionary

badine

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A short, decorated switch or rod, carried by the fashionable in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Pronunciation

/bəˈdiːn/

Word forms

badine badines

Etymology

Borrowed from French badine.

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