gaberdine
Americannoun
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Also a long, loose coat or frock for men, worn in the Middle Ages, especially by Jews.
noun
Etymology
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 tabardo tabard
Example Sentences
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“Seattle! — department stores full of fur coats and camping equipment, mad noontime businessmen in gaberdine coats talking on street corners to keep up the structure, I float past, birds cry … ”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 1, 2021
"Kids still want gaberdine shirts and bomber jackets, but they don't care if it's genuine or not," he says.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2011
Adolf Hitler in a gaberdine pranced into hoary, high-spired Nuremberg last week for seven days of such pageantry and triumph as might befit the coronation of a Holy Roman Emperor.
From Time Magazine Archive
He next divested himself of his long gaberdine and his hat, buttoning the former loosely about the pump, which it almost concealed, and hanging the latter upon the summit of the structure.
From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales by Bierce, Ambrose
My, best way is to creep under his gaberdine; there is no other shelter hereabout: Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Bacon, Delia
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