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: a pleated frill of cloth or lace attached down the center front of a woman's blouse or dress
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: a fall of lace or cloth attached to the front of a neckband and worn especially by men in the 18th century
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Elaborate Window Treatments Swags, jabots, fringes, tassels—’90s window treatments were nothing short of ambitious.
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Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Apr. 2026
While she has been photographed on the bench in a variety of statement-making jabots, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s collar for President Trump’s swearing-in ceremony sent a particularly powerful message.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 20 Jan. 2025
The rest of the items Mr. Washington wore that day — breeches, a waistcoat, a linen shirt, a type of decorative neckwear known as a jabot — are missing.
—Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
For the next couple of centuries, the space around men’s throats was host to a bewildering array of cravats, stocks, scarves, kerchiefs, solitaires, jabots, and the style that eventually came to be called the ascot.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 6 July 2024
The museum also owns one of O’Connor’s jabots, decorative, scarf-like garments that hang from the base of the neck.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023
The late 1960s got a facelift on Saturday in a collection that featured babydoll dresses, miniskirts, psychedelia, crop-tops and jabot collars -- but never lost that floaty, contemporary Saab touch.
—Thomas Adamson, ajc, 1 Oct. 2022
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Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Apr. 2026
While she has been photographed on the bench in a variety of statement-making jabots, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s collar for President Trump’s swearing-in ceremony sent a particularly powerful message.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 20 Jan. 2025
The rest of the items Mr. Washington wore that day — breeches, a waistcoat, a linen shirt, a type of decorative neckwear known as a jabot — are missing.
—Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
For the next couple of centuries, the space around men’s throats was host to a bewildering array of cravats, stocks, scarves, kerchiefs, solitaires, jabots, and the style that eventually came to be called the ascot.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 6 July 2024
The museum also owns one of O’Connor’s jabots, decorative, scarf-like garments that hang from the base of the neck.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023
The late 1960s got a facelift on Saturday in a collection that featured babydoll dresses, miniskirts, psychedelia, crop-tops and jabot collars -- but never lost that floaty, contemporary Saab touch.
—Thomas Adamson, ajc, 1 Oct. 2022
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“Jabot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jabot. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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