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title: "Jabot"
description: "A jabot is a decorative frill of lace or fabric falling from the neck down the front of a shirt or blouse."
type: Glossary
url: https://teazle.art/glossary/jabot
published: 2026-10-14
updated: 2026-10-14
author: "The Teazle editors"
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# Jabot

*A jabot is a decorative frill of lace or fabric falling from the neck down the front of a shirt or blouse.*

The jabot replaced the [cravat](https://teazle.art/glossary/cravat.md) for some men in the eighteenth century as a cascade of lace or linen at the shirt front. It survives in legal and court dress and in women’s blouses.


## Sources

1. [Jabot (AAT 300210062)](http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300210062). Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus
2. [Jabot (Q1552387)](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1552387). Wikidata

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