tabinet
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tabinet
1770–80; obsolete tabine (perhaps tabb(y) 1 + -ine 2 ) + -et
Example Sentences
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Look at the beautiful blue tabinet dress I gave you—sure there isn't the like in the place—and the new hat ye have, an' kid gloves an' all!
From North, South and over the Sea by Francis, M.E. (Mrs. Francis Blundell)
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.
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
It was a tabinet which I must have seen in my childhood.
From The Story of Bawn by Tynan, Katharine
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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