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Frilly neckwear
Answer for the clue "Frilly neckwear ", 5 letters:
jabot
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Word definitions for jabot in dictionaries
Wikipedia
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) ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse, shirt, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
frill of a shirt, 1823, from French jabot "grizzard (of a bird), frill on a shirt front" (16c.), of unknown origin. Klein suggests a connection with gaver "to cram, gorge," and thus ultimately with English jaw .
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.