bafta

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Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from Persian بافته (woven, wrought).

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Noun

bafta (countable and uncountable, plural baftas)

  1. A coarse material, usually of cotton, originally made in India.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.
  2. An imitation of this fabric.

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