tabret
Americannoun
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a small tabor.
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Obsolete. a person who plays upon this instrument.
Etymology
Origin of tabret
1350–1400; Middle English taberett, equivalent to taber (variant of tabor ) + -ett -et
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But I have no tabret, so look which you will of these others.
From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by John Payne
The playing of the minstrels is frequently mentioned in the old Miracle Plays, and the instruments used were the horn, pipe, tabret, and flute.
From Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries by Edward W. (Edward Woodall) Naylor
And the harp and the viol, and tabret and pipe, and wine are in their feasts; but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.
From What to Do? Thoughts Evoked By the Census of Moscow by Isabel Florence Hapgood
Ho thou o' the tabret, my heart takes flight, viii.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
And though she got not the five pounds from him, he put a new skin on her tabret, and fitted it with a little bell, wherewith she was satisfied.
From The Decameron, Volume II by J. M. (James Macmullen) Rigg
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