Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A piece of cloth fitted to the collar and covering the shirt front, worn chiefly by Roman Catholic and Anglican clergy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A polishing material made of potter's clay that has failed in baking.
- n. A piece of fabric fitted to the collar covering the shirt front worn by the Catholic and Anglican clergy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A polishing material made of potter's clay that has failed in baking.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A kind of linen collar worn by some ecclesiastics, falling down upon the chest and leaving the neck exposed.
- n. A polishing-material made from unglazed pottery which has failed in baking, used by marble-workers, etc.
- In geometry, to revolve about an axis in the horizontal or vertical plane of projection into that plane.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. the capital of Morocco; located in the northwestern on the Atlantic coast
Etymologies
Examples
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He wore a roman collar fitted to a biblike cloth called a rabat and over this a dark jacket with pocket square and he could have been George the Waiter’s tailored master in black and white.
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But I think that he and the Muslims in general really want to build this thing on that site, and it's vitally important to them because it is not just a mosque, but a "rabat," a building that Muslims build on a site just after they conquer it to use as their base of operations in the newly conquered territory.
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In the meantime, in November 1974, in rabat Morocco, at a meeting of the Arab League, he had conceded a separation between Jordan and Palestine and that Yasir Arafat was the only legitimate ruler of the Palestinian people.
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And a good restaurant too. koh lanta old town hammock shop – we bought a great hammock in Koh Lanta that doubled as a top sheet when need be for the rest of the trip. fes to rabat train – easy and fairly frequent.
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J'me rabat sur soulseek tant pis ... mais la j'suis trop deg ç_ç
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The door burst open and, framed against the light, dressed in a black suit and Roman collar and black rabat, was a compact, well-groomed man with a 1911 U.S. Army model .45 automatic in each hand.
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His black suit and rabat were dry, his shoulders narrow, his hands round and pink on the steering wheel.
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In spite of the clerical collar and black silk rabat, he looked more like a football player than an Anglican minister.
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His gown was tumbled and dusty; his greasy _rabat_ hung awry about his neck.
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C'est dans cette optique qu'il convient de creuser la tombe des rabat-joie dont le seul discours est de se plaindre d'une suprématie de l'anglais.
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