tabard
noun
a loose outer garment, sleeveless or with short sleeves, especially one worn by a knight over his armor and usually emblazoned with his arms.
tabarded
-
a word derived from
tabard.
Example Sentences
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Indeed, few of the thousands who listened in London last February to the tabarded heralds proclaiming her Queen, "with one consent of heart and tongue," bothered or needed to rationalize Elizabeth's accession.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Queen, acrackle in white silk organza and wrapped in white fox, dismounted and marched up the Royal Staircase past lines of tabarded heralds to the Royal Robing Room.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hark! for March thereto doth follow, Blithe,—a herald tabarded; O'er him flies the shifting swallow,— Hark! for March thereto doth follow.
From Collected Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. II by Austin Dobson
