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Brewer's: Tabardar
A sizar of Queen's College, Oxford. So called because his gown has tabard sleeves - that is, loose sleeves, terminating a little below the elbow in a point. Source: Dictionary of Phrase…Brewer's: Tabarin
He's a Tabarin—a merry Andrew. Tabarin was the fellow of Mondor, a famous vendor of quack medicines in the reign of Charles IX. By his antics and coarse wit he collected great crowds, and…Brewer's: Tabby
a cat, so called because the brindlings of the tabby were thought to resemble the waterings of the silk of the name. (French, tabis; Italian, etc., tabi; Persian, retabi, a rich figured…Brewer's: Tabla Rasa
(Latin). A clean slate on which anything can be written. “When a girl has been taught to keep her mind a tabla rasa till she comes to years of discretion, she will be more free to act on…Brewer's: Table d'Hote
[the host's table ]. An ordinary. In the Middle Ages, and even down to the reign of Louis XIV., the landlord's table was the only public dining-place known in Germany and France. The first…Brewer's: Table Money
Money appropriated to the purposes of hospitality. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Table-TurningTable d'Hote A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P…Brewer's: Table-Turning
The presumed art of turning tables without the application of mechanical force. Said by some to be the work of departed spirits, and by others to be due to a force akin to mesmerism.…Brewer's: Table
Apelles' table. A pictured table, representing the excellency of sobriety on one side, and the deformity of intemperance on the other. Tables of Cebes. Cebes was a Theban philosopher, a…Brewer's: Tableaux Vivants
(French, living pictures). Representations of statuary groups by living persons, invented by Madame Genlis while she had charge of the children of the Duc d'Orléans. Source: Dictionary…Brewer's: Tabooed
Devoted, Forbidden. This is a Polynesian term, and means consecrated or set apart. Like the Greek anathema, the Latin sacer, the French sacre, etc., the word has a double meaning - one to…Trending
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