jabot
/ˈʒæ.bəʊ/
jabot noun: a cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse, shirt, etc.
Noun
jabot (plural jabots)
- 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...1963, Anthony Burgess, Inside Mr Enderby
jabot meaning in Urdu and Bengali
jabot in Urdu
- چنٹ دار جھالر, جھالر, سنجاف
jabot in Bengali
- বুকের ঝালর
Forms of jabot
| plural | jabots |
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Origin of jabot
Borrowed from French jabot.
Words that rhyme with jabot
Questions about jabot
- What does jabot mean?
- Jabot means a cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse, shirt, etc.
- What is jabot in Urdu?
- Jabot in Urdu is چنٹ دار جھالر, جھالر, سنجاف. See Jabot meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is jabot?
- Jabot is a noun.
- How do you pronounce jabot?
- Jabot is pronounced /ˈʒæ.bəʊ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of jabot?
- The plural of jabot is jabots.
Words near jabot in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: jabot (page history and authors); jabot (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); jabot (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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