The story
- Old French · derived fromtabouret“a stool, pincushion, base of a pillar; literally, a little drum or tabor”
- English todaytaboret
From Old French tabouret (“a stool, pincushion, base of a pillar; literally, a little drum or tabor”), diminutive of tabour (“drum”). Compare French tambour.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.