Batik (noun)
ba-teek
A method (originally used in Java) of producing coloured designs on textiles by dyeing them, having first applied wax to the parts to be left undyed./Cloth dyed using the Batik method.
Late 19th century: from Javanese, literally ‘painted’.
Example sentences
“I still wear the batik scarf you bought me on your travels.”
Meraki (Μεράκι) (Greek) (noun) me-rah-kee To do something with soul, creativity, and love. When someone cooks with meraki, builds with meraki, writes with meraki, they’ve poured themselves into it. Derived…
