Tablature

Chamber's Twientieth Century Dictionary · 1908 · p. 108

tab′la-tūr, n. something tabular: a painting on a wall or ceiling: a picture in general: a method of musical notation, principally employed in the 15th and 16th centuries for the lute: ( an at. ) a division of the skull into two tables. [Fr.,—L. tabula , a board.]