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

Here passed the round-faced burgher, swollen with prosperity, his sweeping dark-clothed gaberdine, flat velvet cap, broad leather belt and dangling pouch all speaking of comfort and of wealth.

From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

He looked sharply at the peddler, but the latter appeared commonplace enough, a man of forty or thereabouts, and dressed in the looped-up gray gaberdine peculiar to the guild of itinerant chapmen.

From The Doomsman by Sutphen, Van Tassel