See also: jabōt, Jabōt, and Jabot

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Portrait of Mozart wearing a jabot.

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French jabot.

Pronunciation edit

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈʒæ.bəʊ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -æbəʊ

Noun edit

jabot (plural jabots)

  1. 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.

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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)

  1. (obsolete) stomach
  2. bird’s crop
  3. shirt-frill, jabot
  4. (Louisiana) bosom, breast

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