jabot
See also: jabōt, Jabōt, and Jabot
English
![](Images/wiktionary/Edliner_Mozart.jpg.webp)
Portrait of Mozart wearing a jabot.
Etymology
Borrowed from French jabot.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈʒæ.bəʊ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -æbəʊ
Noun
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 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
a cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse
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French
Etymology
Possibly related to gaver (“to force-feed”), or from Vulgar Latin *gaba (“maw, mullet”). Or, possibly a Celtic borrowing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʒa.bo/
Noun
jabot m (plural jabots)
- (obsolete) stomach
- bird’s crop
- shirt-frill, jabot
- (Louisiana) bosom, breast
Further reading
- “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.