jabot

Definition

A cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse, shirt, etc.

Etymology

Borrowed from French jabot.

Example Sentences

• "She was wearing tan today, with a ruffled jabot at her throat."
• "She was a dream of winter bourgeois elegance: little black town suit with tiny white jabot of lace-froth; pencil skirt; three-quarter-length coat with lynx collar; long green gloves of suède; suède shoes of dull green; two shades of green in her leafy velvet hat: slim, clean, lithe-looking, delicately painted."