tabinet

or tab·bi·net

[ tab-uh-net ]

noun

1. a fabric resembling poplin, made of silk and wool and usually given a watered finish.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tabinet¹

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

Example Sentences

What more likely than that he should think of making a perquisition upon Councillor Crosbie, who flaunted his opinions before the world in the outward form of a green tabinet neckerchief?

From Project Gutenberg

His eye, whose unruly dancing defied fate, was strangely at variance now with the moody brow, till lately so unwrinkled; while a reckless swagger, which was a new characteristic, spoke of a bitterness and chafing defiance which a green tabinet necktie, with bows ostentatively displayed, served but further to accentuate.

From Project Gutenberg

"That's the blue tabinet she had on at the christening."

From Project Gutenberg

How Mary Anne laughs at the Irish notions of dress, of what they call in the "Evening Post," "a beautiful lama petticoat over a white satin slip!" or "a train of elegant figured tabinet."

From Project Gutenberg

All her little social triumphs—and occasionally she had such—were blazoned abroad by those people who loved to dwell on the courtly attentions bestowed upon their favorite, what distinguished person had taken her "down" to dinner, and the neat compliment that the Viceroy paid her on the taste of her "tabinet."

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