jabot

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She was dressed as she always dressed on Mr. Wiggins's day--in black; but she had a new lace collar with a jabot, and we knew where she had got it.

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  1. noun An ornamental cascade of ruffles or frills down the front of a shirt, blouse, or dress.

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  • Nilsson was dressed in quite modern style—flounces, laces, and fringes, and so forth, while Alfredo had donned a black velvet coat a la something, with a huge jabot which fell over a frilled shirt-front. —  In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875
  • Rising like a phoenix from the depths of of dark music, ~silentsparrow's~ moonchild is a flame - and strap-accented suit with tattered embellishments on the tails of the jacket. buckled cuffs, brocade details, a high collar, two jabot options and distressed pants. —  Fashion World of SL
  • And I must add that I personally have a considerably higher regard for Gieshübler's white jabot, in spite of the fact that jabots are no longer worn, than I have for Crampas's red sapper whiskers. —  The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12
  • Nilsson was dressed in quite modern style--flounces, laces, and fringes, and so forth, while Alfredo had donned a black velvet coat à la something, with a huge jabot which fell over a frilled shirt-front. —  In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters
  • In front a full Mechlin lace jabot, with the white wig above, set his regular features and dark skin in a frame, as it were, his paleness and a look of melancholy in the eyes helping the natural beauty and distinction of a face high bred and haughty. —  Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker
 

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  1. French, crop of a bird, jabot, perhaps of Celtic origin.

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  1. French
 

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