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rebato

rebato is the alternative form of rabato.

Meaning of rabato

Noun

rabato (plural rabatos or rabatoes)

  1. Stiff collar, wired or starched, worn in the 16th and 17th centuries; sometimes used as a support for the ruff.
    • Margaret: Troth, I think your other rabato were better.
      Hero: No, pray thee, good Meg, I'll wear this.
      Margaret: By my troth's not so good; and I warrant your cousin will say so.1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Forms of rebato

pluralrebatos
pluralrebatoes

Questions about rebato

What is rebato the alternative form of?
Rebato is the alternative form of rabato.

Words near rebato in the dictionary

  1. rebathes
  2. rebathing
  3. rebating
  4. rebatment
  5. rebatments
  6. rebato
  7. rebatoes
  8. rebatos
  9. rebats
  10. rebatted
  11. rebatting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rebato (page history and authors); rabato (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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