Also 8 tabret, [a. F. tabouret, in sense 2 (1442 in Hatz.-Darm.); orig. a small tabor or drum, a TABRET, dim. of tabour, TABOR, drum.]
† 1. The same as TABRET, q.v. Obs.
2. A low seat or stool, without back or arms, for one person: so called originally from its shape. Privilege of the tabouret: see quot. 1656.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Tabouret, a pincase; also a little low stool for a child to sit on. In France the priviledge of the Tabouret is of a stool for some particular Ladies to sit in the Queens presence.
1679. trans. Marie Mancini’s Apol., 30. I had the priviledge of sitting on a Tabourette in the Queens presence.
a. 1711. Ken, Hymnotheo, Poet. Wks. 1721, III. 191. Soon as a Stranger comes, she’ll him embrace, Near her proud Person, on a tabret Place.
1858. Masson, Milton (1859), I. 704. A studied slight put upon Lady Scudamore by refusing her the honour of the tabouret,—i.e. the right of being seated—on the occasion of a visit of ceremony to the French queen.
1899. Morrow, Bohem. Paris, 60. He had bought a new easel and two rush-bottomed tabourets.
† 3. A pin-case or needle-case. Obs.
1656. [see sense 2].
1891. in Cent. Dict.
4. A frame for embroidery, a tambour-frame.
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, Tabouret,… an embroidery frame.
1891. in Cent. Dict.
