jabot

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[edit] Etymology

From French jabot.

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Singular
jabot

Plural
uncountable

jabot (uncountable)

  1. A cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse, etc.
    • 1963: 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. — Anthony Burgess, Inside Mr Enderby

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[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

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

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[edit] Noun

jabot m. (plural jabots)

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