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tabinet|ˈtæbɪnɪt, -ɛt|
Also tabb-, -ette.
[app. an arbitrary trade-term from tabby, or perhaps rather from tabine.]
A watered fabric of silk and wool resembling poplin: chiefly associated with Ireland.
1778Phil. Surv. S. Irel. 201 Poplins, some of which, called tabinets, have all the richness of silk. 1796Hist. Ned Evans I. 162 A gown of the most beautiful Irish tabbinet. 1842–3Thackeray Fitz-Boodle's Conf. Pref., Yonder she marches..in her invariable pearl-coloured tabinet. 1883R. Haldane Workshop Receipts Ser. ii. 148/1 Irish Poplins and Tabinets are to be cleaned with camphine.
attrib. and Comb.1818Lady Morgan Autobiog. (1859) 294, I am still in my Dublin tabinette gowns. 1866Lond. Rev. 6 Jan. 6/1 The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland..holds..levées which serve to demoralize the middle classes into dire extravagance, and a tabinet gentility. 1886Rosa Mulholland Marcella Grace i, Tabinet-weaving..is now on the wane. |