Dictionary

jabot en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈʒæ.bəʊ/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Borrowed from French jabot.

Meanings

1. A cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse, shirt, etc.
   • She was wearing tan today, with a ruffled jabot at her throat. 1944, Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake, Penguin, published 2011, page 136:
   • 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. 1963, Anthony Burgess, Inside Mr Enderby:

Forms

Translations (17)

eo ĵaboto (a cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse) · ru жабо́ (a cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse) · nl jabot (a cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse) · es chorrera (a cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse) · es guirindola (a cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse) · de Jabot (a cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse) · mhr жабо (a cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse) · bg жабо (a cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse) · pl żabot (a cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse) · ka ჟაბო (a cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse) · cs žabó (a cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse) · ja ジャボ (a cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse) · cs fiší (a cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse) · fr jabot (a cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse) · hu zsabó (a cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse) · cs žabot (a cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse) · cs fiží (a cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse)