tabinet
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tabinet
1770–80; obsolete tabine (perhaps tabb(y) 1 + -ine 2 ) + -et
Example Sentences
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It was a tabinet which I must have seen in my childhood.
From The Story of Bawn by Tynan, Katharine
His mother had worked for him as a birthday present a waistcoat of purple tabinet, with little foxes' heads upon it, lined with brown satin and having round mulberry buttons.
From Dubliners by Joyce, James
"That's the blue tabinet she had on at the christening."
From Luttrell Of Arran Complete by Lever, Charles James
Not a circumstance was then omitted, from the manly ardour of the bridegroom, and the modest blushes of the bride, to the parson's new surplice, and the silk tabinet mantua of the bridesmaid.
From The Fortunes of Nigel by Scott, Walter, Sir
What more likely than that he should think of making a perquisition upon Councillor Crosbie, who flaunted his opinions before the world in the outward form of a green tabinet neckerchief?
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
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