Noun: taboret
| Singular | taboret |
| Plural | taborets |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:]
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They lie
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upon a big dim doily
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draping a taboret
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(part of the set), beside
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a big hirsute begonia. [1965, Elizabeth Bishop, Filling Station:]
Nouns inflected like taboret
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old French tabouret (“a stool, pincushion, base of a pillar; literally, a little drum or tabor”), diminutive of tabour (“drum”). Compare French tambour. See: French Nouns '
tambour'.