jabot
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English [edit]
Portrait of Mozart wearing a jabot.
Etymology [edit]
From French jabot.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
jabot (uncountable)
- 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.
- 1944, Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake, Penguin 2011, p. 136:
Translations [edit]
a cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse
French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From a Proto-Romance base *gaba ‘maw, gullet’.
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /ʒabo/
Noun [edit]
jabot m (plural jabots)