jabot

English

Portrait of Mozart wearing a jabot.

Etymology

From French jabot.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈʒæ.bəʊ/
• Rhymes: -æbəʊ

Noun

jabot (uncountable)

1. A cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse, shirt, etc.
   • 1944, Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake, Penguin 2011, p. 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

a cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse

• French: jabot (fr) m
• Georgian: ჟაბო (ka) (žabo)
• Hungarian: zsabó (hu)

• Polish: żabot (pl) m
• Russian: жабо (ru) (žabó) n (indeclinable)

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French

Etymology

From a Proto-Romance base *gaba ‘maw, gullet’.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʒabo/

Noun

jabot m (plural jabots)

1. (obsolete) stomach
2. bird's crop
3. shirt-frill, jabot