Jabot

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 2 French 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Pronunciation 2.3 Noun

English

Etymology

French jabot.

Pronunciation

IPA: /'ʒæbəʊ/

Noun

jabot

1. a cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse, etc.

   • 1963: She was a dream of winter bourgeois elegance: little black town suit with tiny white jabot of lace-froth; pencil skirt; three-quarter-length coat with lynx collar; long green gloves of suède; suède shoes of dull green; two shades of green in her leafy velvet hat: slim, clean, lithe-looking, delicately painted. — Anthony Burgess, Inside Mr Enderby

French

Etymology

From a Proto-Romance base *gaba ‘maw, gullet’.

Pronunciation

IPA: /ʒabo/

Noun

jabot

1. (obsolete) the stomach
2. a bird's crop
3. a shirt-frill, a jabot

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