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
The women would put on their green Josephs and gaudiest quilted petticoats or their tabinet gowns of Waterloo whose splendour kirk or market poorly revealed for the shawls that must cover them.
From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Munro, Neil
That is the widow; that stout woman in crimson tabinet, battling about the odd trick with old Mr. Dumps, at the card-table.'
From The Book of Snobs by Thackeray, William Makepeace
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.
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
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