‖ bayadère
(bɑːjəˈdɛər, -ˈdɪə(r))
Also 6 balliadera, 8 balliadere, 9 bayadeer.
[F. bayadère, ad. Pg. bailadeira female dancer; cf. bailar to dance. The earlier forms were taken directly from the Portuguese.]
1. A Hindu dancing girl: the French name, occasionally used by English writers.
| 1598 W. Phillips Linschoten's Trav. 74 (Y.) The heathenish whore called Balliadera, who is a dancer. 1794 E. Moor Narrat. Little's Det. 356 (Y.) The name of balliadere, we never heard applied to the dancing girls. 1826 Heber Journ. India (1828) II. xxviii. 282 The southern Bayadêre, who differ considerably from the nâch girls of northern India. 1835 Penny Cycl. IV. 62/2 The little arts and manners which form the accomplished bayadeer. 1859 Sala Tw. round Clock (1861) 240 A gay audience shouting applause to mimes and jesters and painted bayadères. |
2. Any textile fabric having stripes running across the material. Also attrib. or as adj., defining a material striped in this way.
| 1856 Illustr. London News 27 Dec. 653/1 Bayadere skirts. 1879 Cassell's Fam. Mag. Apr. 312/1 Pompadour silks with Bayadère stripes beneath the bunches of flowers are somewhat new. 1960 Guardian 22 Apr. 8/4 Exquisite evening shoes of glazed Bayadere material. |