rebaton.

1589 Inventory of Winifred Barrington: Linen 22 Dec. (Essex Rec. Office: D/DB F2) Three rebateres of Whight loomeworke.

1591 J. Harington Briefe Allegorie in tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso 410 You fayre Ladies, that spend so many houres in looking and prying in a glasse to see if this shadow sit handsomlie, if your rebatoes be well set.

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 78^v I see Gentlewomen..burning out many pounds of Candle in pinning their treble rebaters.

1601 Bp. W. Barlow Def. Protestants Relig. 162 The men who haue made scarfes, and veiles, and rebaters for sinnes.

1630 J. Taylor Wks. ii. 254 The Tires, the Periwigs, and the Rebatoes, Are made t'adorne ilshap'd Inamoratoes.

1658 J. Mennes & J. Smith Wit Restor'd 154 She don'd new cloaths, and sent the old ones packing, And had her shoes rub'd over with Lamp blacking, Her new rebato, and a falling band, And Rings with severall poesies on her hand.

1868 Once a Week 9 May 416/1 After the ruff we have the gorget..then the falling collar,..the whisks, falling bands, rebatoes, ruffles, &c., about each of which a little treatise might be written.

1882 Liverpool Mercury 30 Oct. 6/7 Ornamental lace—the trimmings for 16th century ruffs and rebatoes.

1967 Shakespeare Q. 18 105 Many writers are of opinion that the flat band worn by Droeshout's Shakespeare should be called a ‘whisk’, but I cannot find contemporary evidence for its use as a masculine fashion, and prefer the word ‘rebato’ (also ‘rabato’, French ‘rabat’).

2003 S. Vincent Dressing Elite iv. 147 A rebato was a large standing collar, wired and starched to maintain its shape.

1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. D ^v Their Lords authoritie is as a rebater to beare vp the Peacockes tayle of their boasting.

1603 A. Dent Path-way to Heauen (new ed.) 42 These great ruffes, which are borne vp with supporters, and rebatoes, as it were with poste and raile.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. iv. i. 166 In Prussia I obserued them to weare long ruffes, with rebatoes of wire to beare them up, such as our women vse.

1634 H. Peacham Gentlemans Exercise (new ed.) i. xvii. 56 King Salomon sitting in his throne with a deepe laced Gentlewomans Ruffe, and a Rebatoe about his necke.

1916 Burlington Mag. June 93/2 It is perhaps worth while to try to throw light upon the character of the ‘pickadil’ or ‘piccadilly’... We used it, apparently, to denote for the most part a kind of stiffened support about the collar of the doublet for ruff or band (analogous to the rebato).

1953 C. de Banke Shakespearean Stage Production iii. ii. 201 The linen- or silk-covered wire frame known as a ‘rebato’, or sometimes as a ‘supportasse’, rose at the back of the neck and supported the high open ruff, or Medici collar, worn by women.