Etymograph

English

taboret

Taboret comes from Old French tabouret ‘a stool, pincushion, base of a pillar’.

  1. Old Frenchc. 842–1400tabouret1‘a stool, pincushion, base of a pillar’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1899taboret1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English taboret
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1899, Kate Chopin: “He sat close to her on a low tabouret,…”.

Lineage

  1. Old Frenchc. 842–1400tabouretWiktionary, English taboret‘a stool, pincushion, base of a pillar’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1899taboretWiktionary, English taboret. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1899, Kate Chopin: “He sat close to her on a low tabouret,…”

Every English word from Old French tabouret

Today it means

noun A little drum; a tabret.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “taboret”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Old French tabouret / taboret

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