tab·o·ret

also tab·ou·ret (tăb′ə-rĕt′, -rā′)

1. A low stool.

2. A low table or cabinet, often on casters.

3. An embroidery frame.

[French tabouret, from Middle French, drum-shaped pin cushion, taboret, from diminutive of tabour, tabor, from Old French; see tabor.]

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tabouret

A low stool or cabinet.

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Noun

tabouret - a low stool in the shape of a drum

taboret

stool - a simple seat without a back or arms

Translations

taburete

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"You wouldn't give me another if I sat here all night imploring you." 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.

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"Take a seat," I said, placing a tabouret; and I made her sit down.

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Dai-yu had a barrel-shaped porcelain tabouret moved up to the verandah's edge, and having selected a fishing-rod for herself, sat leaning on the railing, fishing.

Revisiting Plaks's Study of Dream of the Red Chamber and "Yin-Yang Alternation and Recurrence" as Narrative Logic

Magro E, Graillon T, Lassave J, Castinetti F, Boissonneau S, Tabouret E, et al.

Endoscopic Trans-Sphenoidal surgery: Efficacy and response in pituitary adenoma

(14.) Sulahian A, Tabouret M, Ribaud P, Sarfati J, Gluckman E, et al.

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(46.) Figarella-Branger D, Lechapt-Zalcman E, Tabouret E, et al.

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(45.) Andreoletti O, Simon S, Lacroux C, Morel N, Tabouret G, Chabert A, et al.

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