badine

See also: badiné

English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French badine.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /bəˈdiːn/

Noun edit

badine (plural badines)

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.