jabot

See also: jabōt, Jabōt, and Jabot

English
Portrait of Mozart wearing a jabot.

Etymology

Borrowed from French jabot.

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

Noun

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 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

French

Etymology

Possibly related to gaver (“to force-feed”), or from Vulgar Latin *gaba (“maw, mullet”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʒabo/

Noun

jabot m (plural jabots)

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

Further reading
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