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
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
A man who has been to Harrow and Oxford longing for a gaberdine and side curls!
From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Zangwill, Israel
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