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baftas

baftas is the plural of bafta.

Meaning of bafta

Noun

bafta (countable and uncountable, plural baftas)

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 A coarse material, usually of cotton, originally made in India.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

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Noun capitalized: BAFTAs

BAFTAs

  1. (plural) plural of BAFTA

Questions about baftas

What is baftas the plural of?
Baftas is the plural of bafta.
What part of speech is baftas?
Baftas is a noun.

Words near baftas in the dictionary

  1. bafta
  2. baftae
  3. baftaes
  4. baftah
  5. baftahs
  6. baftas
  7. bafts
  8. Bafumbira
  9. Bafut
  10. bag
  11. bag and baggage

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