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nounrabato (plural rabatos or rabatoes)
plural rabatos · plural rabatoes · alternative rebato · alternative rabatine
- 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] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]
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nouna wired or starched collar of intricate lace; worn in 17th century
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APA
rabato. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rabato
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “rabato,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rabato.
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