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batik

Batik is the Javanese art of drawing on cloth with wax before dyeing; the word reached English through Dutch colonial Java in the 1800s.

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Wiktionary: batik
Wikipedia: Batik
Etymonline: batik (Wayback copy)

1817Javanese

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