different between taboret vs tabret

English

Alternative forms

• tabouret

Etymology

From Old French tabouret (“a stool, pincushion, base of a pillar; literally, a little drum or tabor”), diminutive of tabour (“drum”). Compare French tambour.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tæb???t/

Noun

taboret (plural taborets)

1. A little drum; a tabret.
2. A low stool in the form of a drum.
   • 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:

     He sat close to her on a low tabouret, and as he spoke his fingers lightly touched the hair that fell a little over her forehead.

   • 1965, Elizabeth Bishop, "Filling Station":

     They lie
     upon a big dim doily
     draping a taboret
     (part of the set), beside
     a big hirsute begonia.

3. A low stand or embroidery frame in the same shape.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:taboret.

Translations

Further reading

• taboret in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• taboret in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• taboret at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• abettor

Polish

Etymology

From French tabouret.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?b?.r?t/

Noun

taboret m inan

1. stool, a piece of furniture for sitting without a backrest

   Synonym: sto?ek

2. (slang, derogatory) motor scooter

   Synonyms: skuter, kibel

Declension

Further reading

• taboret in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• taboret in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Noun

tabret (plural tabrets)

1. A small tabor; a timbrel
2. (obsolete) A person who plays the tabor.

Translations

References

• Holy Bible, KJV: I Samuel 18:6 - "And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities and Israel, singing and dancing, to meet kind Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of music."
• Holy Bible, NKJV: Job 17:6 - "He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret."

Anagrams

• Tarbet, batter