jabot
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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Noun[edit]
jabot (plural jabots)
- A cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse, shirt, etc.
- 1944, Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake, Penguin, published 2011, page 136:
- She was wearing tan today, with a ruffled jabot at her throat.
- 1963, Anthony Burgess, Inside Mr Enderby:
- She was a dream of winter bourgeois elegance: little black town suit with tiny white jabot of lace-froth; pencil skirt; three-quarter-length coat with lynx collar; long green gloves of suède; suède shoes of dull green; two shades of green in her leafy velvet hat: slim, clean, lithe-looking, delicately painted.
Translations[edit]
a cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Possibly related to gaver (“to force-feed”), or from Vulgar Latin *gaba (“maw, mullet”). Or, possibly a Celtic borrowing (compare Irish gob (“beak”), Gaulish *gobbos (“mouth”)).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
jabot m (plural jabots)
Further reading[edit]
- “jabot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- “jabot”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
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