badine means A short, decorated switch or rod, carried by the fashionable in the 18th and 19th centuries. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 86 out of 100.
badine is pronounced /bəˈdiːn/.
noun
- A short, decorated switch or rod, carried by the fashionable in the 18th and 19th centuries.“A badine, or switch, dangles in the hand of the beau, whose bare head is dressed with enormous curls, and a fore-top.”