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 turned to accost a quiet-looking girl wearing an oil-silk gaberdine and very clearly born upon the opposite side of the Channel.
From Berry And Co. by Yates, Dornford
His Imperial Majesty's disguise was complete, consisting as it did of an aquiline nose of considerable size, and a secondhand gaberdine of primitive cut.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 24, 1891 by Various
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