'Tablature' definitions:

Definition of 'tablature'

noun

A musical notation indicating the fingering to be used

From: GCIDE

Tablature \Tab"la*ture\, n. [Cf. F. tablature ancient mode of musical notation. See Table.]
1. (Paint.) A painting on a wall or ceiling; a single piece comprehended in one view, and formed according to one design; hence, a picture in general. --Shaftesbury. [1913 Webster]
2. (Mus.) An ancient mode of indicating musical sounds by letters and other signs instead of by notes. [1913 Webster]
The chimes of bells are so rarely managed that I went up to that of Sir Nicholas, where I found who played all sorts of compositions from the tablature before him as if he had fingered an organ. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster]
3. (Anat.) Division into plates or tables with intervening spaces; as, the tablature of the cranial bones. [1913 Webster]