[f. BASTE v.1]

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  1.  Sewing with large loose stitches; quilting (obs.), ‘tacking’; also attrib., as in basting-thread.

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1530.  Palsgr., 196/2. Bastyng of clothe, bastiment.

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1860.  R. Cobbold, Pict. Chinese, 146. When the scissors … have done their work of cutting the material … the next process … answers to our basting.

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1870.  Daily News, 4 April. Waistcoats without buttons, coats disfigured by basting threads.

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  † 2.  Something basted or quilted on; a lining or trimming. Obs.

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c. 1525.  Skelton, Agst. Garnesche, 200. The flesche bastyng of hys cote was sewyd with slendyr thred.

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1592.  Nashe, P. Penilesse, 12 a. Blisterd with light sarcenet bastings.

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