bathos
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There’s patterned fabric everywhere: covering the windows and furniture, hanging in the form of quilts, clothing and batiks.
From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2021
On the right, Southeast Asians in colorful batiks present her with gifts, as representations of the Dutch East Indies colony.
From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2021
“We aim to reflect the cultures of the clients we serve, and traditional prints like batiks, ikats and mud cloths allow us to do that,” she says.
From Washington Post • Jan. 11, 2021
Guo has a collection of Teddy bears, and Jack has one of batiks.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 21, 2016
“Oh, running a shop; making smocks, working on batiks, painting, writing vers libre,” Gratia admitted.
From Out of the Air by Gillmore, Inez Haynes
Vocabulary lists containing bathos
Rhetoric
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Advanced
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Reading: Literature - Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - High School
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