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babine [< Cdn F babine protruding lip] Hist. 
n. a labret for the lower lip, formerly used by the Babines and certain other Indian tribes of northern British Columbia.
- 1834 (1963) Crowds of Kittistzoo about the gate & amongst them some good looking women malgré the "babine."
- 1910 They [labrets] had for effect to considerably distend the lower lip, giving it a shocking prominence, which recalled that of the larger mammals, such as the moose, which was called babine by the French Canadians.
- 1834 (1963) Crowds of Kittistzoo about the gate & amongst them some good looking women malgré the "babine."