jabot
Example Sentences
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Elderly ladies in lace jabots and stiffly polite gentlemen in somewhat frayed double-breasted black suits filled five small rooms in Munich's Municipal Gallery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then came Britain's Lord Chancellor, his robe brocaded in gold, at the head of a procession of Commonwealth legislators, lace jabots at their throats.
From Time Magazine Archive
To make one costume seem like many, women are buying in vast quantities dickies, jabots, fichus, gilets, ruches, berthas, bibs, piccadillies, collets, modesties and ruffs.
From Time Magazine Archive
And when the court's 15 judges, resplendent in black robes and white jabots, assemble in their chamber in The Hague's Palace of Peace, they represent the world's legal conscience.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I suppose I shall have to be fixing up something like that," she thought, "only I never could do up jabots and I'd rather scrub floors than shampoo people's heads."
From Molly Brown's Sophomore Days by Speed, Nell
Vocabulary lists containing jabot
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