Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A piece of cloth fitted to the collar and covering the shirt front, worn chiefly by Roman Catholic and Anglican clergy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In geometry, to revolve about an axis in the horizontal or vertical plane of projection into that plane.
- noun A kind of linen collar worn by some ecclesiastics, falling down upon the chest and leaving the neck exposed.
- noun A polishing-material made from unglazed pottery which has failed in baking, used by marble-workers, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A polishing material made of potter's clay that has failed in baking.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
polishing material made of potter'sclay that has failed in baking. - noun A piece of fabric fitted to the collar covering the shirt front worn by the Catholic and Anglican clergy.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the capital of Morocco; located in the northwestern on the Atlantic coast
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He wore a roman collar fitted to a biblike cloth called a rabat and over this a dark jacket with pocket square and he could have been George the Waiter’s tailored master in black and white.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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He wore a roman collar fitted to a biblike cloth called a rabat and over this a dark jacket with pocket square and he could have been George the Waiter’s tailored master in black and white.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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He wore a roman collar fitted to a biblike cloth called a rabat and over this a dark jacket with pocket square and he could have been George the Waiter’s tailored master in black and white.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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But I think that he and the Muslims in general really want to build this thing on that site, and it's vitally important to them because it is not just a mosque, but a "rabat," a building that Muslims build on a site just after they conquer it to use as their base of operations in the newly conquered territory.
Forum: News/Activism Associated Press/Yahoo News 2010
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In the meantime, in November 1974, in rabat Morocco, at a meeting of the Arab League, he had conceded a separation between Jordan and Palestine and that Yasir Arafat was the only legitimate ruler of the Palestinian people.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Birnbaum on Human Rights Watch and Israel 2010
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In the meantime, in November 1974, in rabat Morocco, at a meeting of the Arab League, he had conceded a separation between Jordan and Palestine and that Yasir Arafat was the only legitimate ruler of the Palestinian people.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Birnbaum on Human Rights Watch and Israel 2010
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And a good restaurant too. koh lanta old town hammock shop – we bought a great hammock in Koh Lanta that doubled as a top sheet when need be for the rest of the trip. fes to rabat train – easy and fairly frequent.
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And a good restaurant too. koh lanta old town hammock shop – we bought a great hammock in Koh Lanta that doubled as a top sheet when need be for the rest of the trip. fes to rabat train – easy and fairly frequent.
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J'me rabat sur soulseek tant pis ... mais la j'suis trop deg ç_ç
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2005
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The door burst open and, framed against the light, dressed in a black suit and Roman collar and black rabat, was a compact, well-groomed man with a 1911 U.S. Army model .45 automatic in each hand.
Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002
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