Meanings
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 1361 more example
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, delicately painted.
1963, Anthony Burgess, Inside Mr Enderby
Origin
- Frenchjabot
- Frenchjabot
- Englishjabot
Borrowed from French jabot.
More words from French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian жабо
- жабо (žabo)a cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse
Catalan gorgera
- gorgeraa cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse
Czech fiží, fiší
- fižía cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse
- fišía cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse
- žabóa cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse
- žabota cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse
Dutch jabot
- jabota cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse
Esperanto ĵaboto
- ĵabotoa cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse
French jabot
- jabota cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse
German Jabot
- Jabota cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse
Hungarian zsabó
- zsabóa cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse
Japanese ジャボ
- ジャボ (jabo)a cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse
Polish żabot
- żabota cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse
Russian жабо́
- жабо́ (žabó)a cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse
Spanish chorrera, guirindola
- chorreraa cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse
- guirindolaa cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with jabot
All rhymes →Cite this entry
jabot. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jabot
“jabot.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jabot. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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