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  • I have seen jabots shaped like a large semicircle.

    Jean's Knitting Jean 2009

  • The jabots I can find on line – not patterns but pictures – have two or three layers of lace.

    Jean's Knitting Jean 2009

  • The jabots I can find on line – not patterns but pictures – have two or three layers of lace.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Jean 2009

  • Far too busy a week looms to think of going to Leith and looking at jabots at Kinloch Anderson, but I could try charting a Christine Duchrow jabot in modern terms and having a wee shot at it.

    Jean's Knitting Jean 2009

  • We see a brightly lit courtroom full of some two dozen people: solemn judges and lawyers in black robes and white jabots, an impassive Lubanga in a suit and tie in the dock, witnesses who testify about his use of child soldiers, plus a prosecutor, a defense attorney, and — an ICC feature loosely modeled after some European justice systems — a lawyer making statements on behalf of a group of victims.

    The Trial of Thomas Lubanga 2009

  • Far too busy a week looms to think of going to Leith and looking at jabots at Kinloch Anderson, but I could try charting a Christine Duchrow jabot in modern terms and having a wee shot at it.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Jean 2009

  • And I admit ignorance to the difference between jabots for men and ladies.

    Jean's Knitting Jean 2009

  • We see a brightly lit courtroom full of some two dozen people: solemn judges and lawyers in black robes and white jabots, an impassive Lubanga in a suit and tie in the dock, witnesses who testify about his use of child soldiers, plus a prosecutor, a defense attorney, and — an ICC feature loosely modeled after some European justice systems — a lawyer making statements on behalf of a group of victims.

    The Trial of Thomas Lubanga 2009

  • Instead, she and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ultimately chose ruffled white lace jabots, reminiscent of those still worn by many male and female judges in England and France.

    Susan Scafidi: Not-So-Blind Justice: On Style And The Supreme Court 2009

  • "Two in white cambric, and one in dove-gray silk, and we'll want enough extra fabric to make three jabots for each."

    The Gates Of Sleep Lackey, Mercedes 2002

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