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 using this term, see Citations:taboret.

• “taboret”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “taboret”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “taboret”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• abettor

Borrowed from French tabouret.

• IPA^(key): /taˈbɔ.rɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɔrɛt
• Syllabification: ta‧bo‧ret

taboret m inan

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

   Synonym: stołek

2. (slang, derogatory) motor scooter

   Synonyms: skuter, kibel

• “taboret”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “taboret”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)