gabardine
Also gaberdine. a firm, tightly woven fabric of worsted, cotton, polyester, or other fiber, with a twill weave.
Origin of gabardine
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How to use gabardine in a sentence
The peddler's couch was empty, save for his gabardine of gray and the false hair that had served him for a beard.
The Doomsman | Van Tassel SutphenHall spread his brown gabardine jacket in the moss bank adjacent to a small stream.
The Five Arrows | Allan ChaseSimon passed his hand roughly over him and felt a fat clean-shaven face, and a cloth gabardine which hung to the ankles.
Sir Nigel | Arthur Conan DoyleShe presented a dainty figure in cream gabardine and a broad-brimmed straw hat which suited her admirably.
Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo | William Le QueuxAnd, looking into the future with the ambitious eye of conscious cleverness, he saw the paternal gabardine over-glooming his life.
Ghetto Tragedies | Israel Zangwill
British Dictionary definitions for gabardine
gaberdine
/ (ˈɡæbəˌdiːn, ˌɡæbəˈdiːn) /
a twill-weave worsted, cotton, or spun-rayon fabric
an ankle-length loose coat or frock worn by men, esp by Jews, in the Middle Ages
any of various other garments made of gabardine, esp a child's raincoat
Origin of gabardine
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