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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.


Etymology

Origin of tabinet

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

Example Sentences

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"That's the blue tabinet she had on at the christening."

From Luttrell Of Arran Complete by Lever, Charles James

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

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

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

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

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