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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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 Samuel Richardson
On these occasions they introduced the harp, lute, tabret, and various instruments, together with songs and dancing, and the guests were entertained nearly in the same manner as at an Egyptian feast.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
They did not march ahead of their beloveds waving a crook as wand of office or appealing to the esthetic sides of their ideal followers with a tabret and pipe.
From Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac by Ernest Thompson Seton
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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