gaberdine

[ gab-er-deen, gab-er-deen ]

noun

Also gabardine. a long, loose coat or frock for men, worn in the Middle Ages, especially by Jews.
gabardine (def. 1).

Origin of gaberdine

1510–20; <Middle French gauvardine, gallevardine<Spanish gabardina, perhaps a conflation of gabán (≪ Arabic qabā men's overgarment) and tabardina, diminutive of tabardotabard

Words Nearby gaberdine

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How to use gaberdine in a sentence

He was old, and his woollen gaberdine still reeked of the stinking artemisia of the mountain passes.
Kim | Rudyard Kipling
A picturesque grey-headed and grey-bearded old Jew, in a shovel-hat and gaberdine.'
Our Mutual Friend | Charles Dickens
He wore a black gaberdine and a large hat with a turned-down brim.
My Memoirs | Marguerite Steinheil
I promised, as the price of your admission, to hide me under his bearish gaberdine, and prompt him in the hour of need.
Kenilworth | Sir Walter Scott
A shrivelled arm, a dropsied leg, were to Ribera what a breast-plate and a gaberdine were to Rembrandt.
The life and writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume III (of 3) | Henry Fuseli

British Dictionary definitions for gaberdine

gaberdine

/ (ˈɡæbəˌdiːn, ˌɡæbəˈdiːn) /

noun

a variant spelling of gabardine

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