English

Noun

badine ‎(plural badines)

1. 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 0253000009:

     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.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.din/

Adjective

badine

1. feminine singular of badin

Noun

badine f ‎(plural badines)

1. switch (stick)
2. a small bendy walking stick, walking cane
3. tong (to use in a fireplace)

Verb

badine

1. first-person singular present indicative of badiner
2. third-person singular present indicative of badiner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of badiner
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of badiner
5. second-person singular imperative of badiner