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
Meanwhile, the merchant threw his gaberdine over Nuzhet ez Zeman and carried her to his house, where he dressed her in the richest clothes he could buy.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II by John Payne
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 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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