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Blouse ruffle
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jabot
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Jabot may be: Jabot Cosmetics , fictional company depicted in the soap Young and the Restless Jabot, a knot in an Ascot tie Jabot Airport , an airport on Jabat Island in the Marshall Islands Jabat Island , an island in the Marshall Islands Jabot (neckwear) ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jabot \Jab"ot\, n. [F.] Originally, a kind of ruffle worn by men on the bosom of the shirt. An arrangement of lace or tulle, looped ornamentally, and worn by women on the front of the dress.
Usage examples of jabot.
Margherita told her, turning back to the shirtwaists and pointing out a simple, but elegant design with a high collar and a lace jabot that could be tied in many ways, or left off altogether.
In the company of Fox and with a light breeze ruffling my jabot and cooling my overheated face, I believed myself to be gliding towards my answer.
She always chose soft, rather feminine outfits, arid this morning she wore a simple lilac wool suit and a matching blouse with a frilly jabot which fell down the front, gold jewelry, and black patent pumps and handbag.
He wore shoes with silver buckles, knee-breeches, a snuff-colored frock coat, a lace jabot, and an outlandish gray hat with wide brim and longhaired surface that might have come out of the ark.
He had Thorby attired, ruffled jabot to tights, when a footman appeared.
The color suited him: deep black against the fine Holland linen, with a modestly folded jabot at the neck.
About his neck he wore a jabot, the double frill of silk spilling as white as snow from the front of his vest.
Will looked thoughtfully at his tail-coat, which was cut away at the waist, and which he wore with a kind of jabot at the neck instead of a white tie.
On her white shirtwaist was a pleated jabot of cheap lace, caught with a large novelty pin of imitation coral.
Bar, and he went down to the House of Lords tailored out in his new silk gown, a lace jabot, knee breeches with diamante buckles, patent shoes, black silk stockings, lace cuffs and a full-bottomed wig that made him look like a pedigree, but not over-bright, spaniel.
A woman in a black masculine-cut suit with a high coffee-coloured lace jabot stood in the doorway.
He was a suitor to be proud of, faultlessly attired in his usual black but with a richly embroidered waistcoat and an elaborate jabot of fine Mechlin lace.
Even in poor light she was a truly beautiful lady, clad in a low-cut azure Damask-silk gown, trimmed with a jabot of finest Venetian lace.
To meet her employer, she picked a skirt of the softest wool she had ever touched in her life, wool as soft and as plush as velvet, in a deep sapphire blue, and a silk waist with a flowing jabot in pale blue with more lace, dyed to match, at the collar and cuffs.
And Rosie at her washing cauldrons: in the jabots and cuffs and collars of Brussels lace worn by the Cavaliers she sees a way to her own prosperity.