tabinet

American  

[tab-uh-net] / ˈtæb əˌnɛt /

Or tabbinet

noun

1. a fabric resembling poplin, made of silk and wool and usually given a watered finish.

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Etymology

Origin of tabinet

1770–80; obsolete tabine (perhaps tabb(y) ¹ + -ine ² ) + -et

Example Sentences

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 Pickthall, Marjorie L. C.

It was a tabinet which I must have seen in my childhood.

From The Story of Bawn by Tynan, Katharine

He wore buckskin breeches, top boots, green tabinet double-breasted waistcoat, bottle-green coat with brass buttons, and beaver hat.

From The Life Story of an Old Rebel by Denvir, John

And up stairs she came, bristling with silk—the identical Irish tabinet, perhaps, which had never been turned—and conscious of the business which had brought her.

From Orley Farm by Trollope, Anthony

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