gaberdine

American  

[gab-er-deen, gab-er-deen] / ˈgæb ərˌdin, ˌgæb ərˈdin /

noun

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

2. gabardine.

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gaberdine British  

/ ˌɡæbəˈdiːn, ˈɡæbəˌdiːn /

noun

1. a variant spelling of gabardine

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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

“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

There came a mercer wonder-fine With velvet cap and gaberdine; For all his ships, for all his trade He could not buy the franklin's maid.

From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

For I had worked mainly upon the head, and now that I purposed to clothe the figure in its native gaberdine, there would be little to re-draw.

From Ghetto Comedies by Zangwill, Israel