▪ I. tabret
(ˈtæbrɪt)
Forms: α. 4–5 taberett, 5 -ette, 5–6 -et, 5– tabret, (6 -ette, 7 tabberet, tabaret); β. 6 tabertte, -erde, -arte, -arde; γ. 5 taborete, 6–7 tabouret.
[f. tabor + -et1.]
1. A small tabor; a timbrel. Hist. or arch.
| α 1464 Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) 264 Item, for a hedstalle for the taberet iiij d. 1489 Caxton Faytes of A. iii. xiv. 198 He had lost hys pype and hys tabret. 1535 Coverdale Gen. xxxi. 27 That I might haue brought the on the waye with myrth,..with tabrettes and harpes. 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 134 A Hare..was seen in England..playing with his former feet upon a tabberet. 1683 Pettus Fleta Min. ii. 12 Choice Instruments of Musick..also the Tabaret. 1748 Richardson Clarissa (1810) IV. xxvi. 147 Not a tabret, nor the expectation of a new joy to animate him on! 1879 Stainer Music of Bible 155 The tabret has now been excluded from sacred buildings, having given place to the more solemn and imposing drum. |
| β 1556 Chron. Gr. Friars (Camden) 27 With trompettes, shalmes, and taberttes in the best maner. 1570 Levins Manip. 31/1 A Tabarde, timpanum. 1575 Turberv. Falconrie 191 The Falconer muste haue with him a little drumme or Taberde fastened to the pommell of his saddle. ? 1600 Chester Pl., Banns 118 Get mynstrilles to that shewe, pipe, tabarte, and flute. |
| γ 1599 Bp. Hall Sat. iv. i. 78 Or Mimoes whistling to his tabouret. 1676 Dugdale Baronage Eng. II. 107/2 So shalle they departe the Manoir..with Trompets, Tabouretts, and other manoir of Mynstralce [orig. c 1500]. 1885 H. C. McCook Tenants Old Farm 299 In the katydid..the musical instruments are a pair of taborets. |
| b. fig. 1610 Boys Expos. Dom. Epist. Wks. (1622) 443 Making their infirmities and sinnes our tabret and delight. |
† 2. transf. A performer on a tabret.
Obs.| a 1377 in Househ. Ord. (1790) 4 Mynstrelles—Taberett 1. 14.. in Hist. Coll. Citizen London (Camden) 220 On manly man..that was a taberette..stode a-pon an hylle wyth hys tabyr and hys pype. 1464 Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) 239, I delyverd my taborete the same day a new gowen, and iij.d. 1540 in Vicary's Anat. (1888) App. xii. 241 Item, for John Buntanus, tabret—xlj s. iiij d. 1634 Sir T. Herbert Trav. 67 Amongst the horse were aboue fortie Kettle⁓drummes and Tabrets. |
▪ II. tabret obs. form of
tabouret.