tabinet
(ˈtæbɪnɪt, -ɛt)
Also tabb-, -ette.
[app. an arbitrary trade-term from tabby, or perhaps rather from tabine.]
A watered fabric of silk and wool resembling poplin: chiefly associated with Ireland.
| 1778 Phil. Surv. S. Irel. 201 Poplins, some of which, called tabinets, have all the richness of silk. 1796 Hist. Ned Evans I. 162 A gown of the most beautiful Irish tabbinet. 1842–3 Thackeray Fitz-Boodle's Conf. Pref., Yonder she marches..in her invariable pearl-coloured tabinet. 1883 R. Haldane Workshop Receipts Ser. ii. 148/1 Irish Poplins and Tabinets are to be cleaned with camphine. |
| attrib. and Comb. 1818 Lady Morgan Autobiog. (1859) 294, I am still in my Dublin tabinette gowns. 1866 Lond. Rev. 6 Jan. 6/1 The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland..holds..levées which serve to demoralize the middle classes into dire extravagance, and a tabinet gentility. 1886 Rosa Mulholland Marcella Grace i, Tabinet-weaving..is now on the wane. |