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.

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Etymology

Origin of tabinet

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

Example Sentences

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tabinet

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 Marjorie L. C. Pickthall

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 William Makepeace Thackeray

He wore buckskin breeches, top boots, green tabinet double-breasted waistcoat, bottle-green coat with brass buttons, and beaver hat.

From The Life Story of an Old Rebel by John Denvir

And up stairs she came, bristling with silk—the identical Irish tabinet, perhaps, which had never been turned—and conscious of the business which had brought her.

From Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope

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 M.E. (Mrs. Francis Blundell) Francis