taboret

• tabouret

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtæbəɹɛt/

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.

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:taboret.

• 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

• abettor

• IPA^(key): /taˈbɔ.rɛt/

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taboret m inan

1. stool, a piece of furniture for sitting without a backrest
2. (slang, derogatory) motor scooter

• (stool): stołek
• (motor scooter): skuter, kibel