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
Example Sentences
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But I have no tabret, so look which you will of these others.
From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Payne, John
He hath made me a bye-word of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 by Richardson, Samuel
But no tabret have I: wherefore choose which of these others you will have.
From The Decameron, Volume II by Rigg, J. M. (James Macmullen)
The old miracle plays were assisted by performers on the horn, the pipe, the tabret, and the flute—a full orchestra in fact.
From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Cook, Dutton
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 Rigg, J. M. (James Macmullen)
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