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

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 Thackeray, William Makepeace

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

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

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

From The Story of Bawn by Tynan, Katharine

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