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

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tabinet

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

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

Sackville did not enter it, though little Laura took the back seat on purpose, and left him the front place alongside of Mrs. Chuff's red tabinet.

From The Book of Snobs by William Makepeace Thackeray

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

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 Anthony Trollope