tabletten.
/təˈblɛt/, /ˈtablᵻt/, U.S. /təbˈlɛt/, /ˈtæblət/ 1. A smooth stiff sheet for writing on; a number of such sheets fastened together; = tablet n. 1a. Now historical and rare.
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society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > writing tablet > [noun]
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1711 tr. N. Boileau Wks. 145 I'm sorry with all my Heart she has lost her Tablettes. How glad should I have been to have seen a Scythian Madrigal?
1727 H. Herbert tr. C. Fleury Eccl. Hist. I. 536 He came out with the tablette in his hand and read it.
1798 R. Clifford tr. A. Barruel Mem. Hist. Jacobinism III. xiii. 180 All the tablettes or instructions..are sent..digested, and receive additions and notes, before they are forwarded.
1860 W. Collins Woman in White ep. i. narr. W. H. vii I made some entries in my tablettes this morning. Find my tablettes.
1982 Financial Times (Nexis) 3 Apr. 13 A carnet de bal contained a tablette of leaves of ivory on which young girls inscribed the names of their dancing partners at a ball.
2. Architecture. A horizontal projecting course or moulding; spec. (Fortification) a coping stone placed at the top of a retaining wall. Cf. table n. 21a. Now rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > string-course or -moulding
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1723 E. Chambers tr. S. Le Clerc Treat. Archit. I. 124 Balusters with their Rail, serving as a Tablette or Rest to the Elbows.
1843 Treat. Geom. Drawing iv. 56 He left a berm of two feet between the foot of the exterior slope and the outer edge of the tablette; and..gave his retaining walls an exterior slope of one-sixth.
1853 J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 277/1 Tablette, a flat coping-stone, generally two feet wide and eight inches thick, placed at the top of the revêtement of the escarp, for the purpose of protecting the masonry from the effects of the weather, and also to serve as an obstacle to the besiegers when applying the scaling-ladders.
1943 F. Kimball Creation of Rococo 50 The marble chimney pieces here had broader shelves or tablettes without any attic, their heads being arched or supported by herms.
3. A small, flat, or compressed piece of a solid substance; a tablet, lozenge, pill, or sweet; = tablet n. 3a.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > pills, tablets, etc. > [noun] > tablet or lozenge
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1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique Tablette, or Lozenge, a Term in Pharmacy,..a solid Electuary..cut into the form of small, round or square Boards.
1841 Dublin Med. Press 22 Sept. 189/2 He forms a syrup..a pill, a tablette, a jelly, and a lavement, in all of which are methods adopted for preserving the iodine unaltered.
1890 Harper's Mag. Jan. 230/2 Some tablettes of grated cocoa candied in liquid sugar.
1899 H. Law & H. E. Law Viavi Hygiene lxxiii. 505 One tablette is to be taken three times a day on an empty stomach.
1963 H. Werner & B. Kaplan Symbol Formation xv. 247 In another dream, ‘pseudointabloid’..condensing ‘pseudo’ and ‘tablette’, was used to refer to a ‘phony drug against alcoholism’.
2006 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 14 Feb. 5 The classic collection is silver-wrapped, country-of-origin chocolate blocks or ‘tablettes’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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