bafta
See also: BAFTA
English
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editEtymology
editUncertain. Possibly from Persian بافته (“woven, wrought”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbafta (countable and uncountable, plural baftas)
- A coarse material, usually of cotton, originally made in India.
- 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:
- 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.
- An imitation of this fabric.
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