gabardine

[ gab-er-deen, gab-er-deen ]
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noun
  1. 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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Spelling variant of gaberdine

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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 Sutphen
  • Hall spread his brown gabardine jacket in the moss bank adjacent to a small stream.

    The Five Arrows | Allan Chase
  • Simon 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 Doyle
  • She presented a dainty figure in cream gabardine and a broad-brimmed straw hat which suited her admirably.

    Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo | William Le Queux
  • And, 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

gabardine

gaberdine

/ (ˈɡæbəˌdiːn, ˌɡæbəˈdiːn) /


noun
  1. a twill-weave worsted, cotton, or spun-rayon fabric

  2. an ankle-length loose coat or frock worn by men, esp by Jews, in the Middle Ages

  1. any of various other garments made of gabardine, esp a child's raincoat

Origin of gabardine

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C16: from Old French gauvardine pilgrim's garment, from Middle High German wallewart pilgrimage; related to Spanish gabardina

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