tabinet
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tabinet
1770–80; obsolete tabine (perhaps tabb(y) 1 + -ine 2 ) + -et
Example Sentences
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And sure, my nasturtium-coloured tabinet is only for the best occasions, and so I told O'Brien.
From Dick's Desertion A Boy's Adventures in Canadian Forests by Marjorie L. C. Pickthall
It was a tabinet which I must have seen in my childhood.
From The Story of Bawn by Katharine Tynan
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 Lewis Wingfield
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 James Joyce
Why, I remember an Irish tabinet as Smiley gave her when first that venture in the brick-fields came up money; if that tabinet is as much as turned yet, why, I'll eat it.
From Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope
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