Lexicographical Neighbors of Rabatos
Literary usage of Rabatos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Embroidery and Lace by Ernest Lefébure (1888)
"They were chiefly in the form of rabatos* or bands falling from beneath the chin
over the breast, the fashion for which, succeeding that of ruffs and ..."
2. The Gull's Hornbook: Stultorum Plena Sunt Omnia by Thomas Dekker, John Nott (1812)
"So termed from their manifold plaits, which were adjusted by heated steel
poking-sticks. i8 stiffnecked rabatos.] These were a smaller sort of ruffs, ..."
3. The Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1909)
"The studio of the Gobelins supplied designs. The dandies had their huge rabatos,
or bande falling from beneath the chin over the breast, and great prelates ..."
4. The Tatler by Joseph Addison, Alexander Chalmers, Richard Steele (1822)
"Among others equally unknown to present times, are the following: ' Italian
Falling-Bands; French garters; Roman gloves; rabatos, a kind of ruffs ; Sister's ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1896)
"Mrs. Turner, who the inventor of the yellow starch so largely used in the dressing
of ruffs, rabatos, and collars of all kinds, was executed for the murder ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1818)
"... rabatos, that have more arches for pride to row under, than can stand under
rive London bridges, durst not then set themselves out in print ; for the ..."
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