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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tabard
noun
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▪ Gabriel put on his white shirt and scarlet tabard with the gold embroidery.
▪ Once, the King sent a herald with banner, trumpet and tabard, to invite the captain of Famagusta to surrender.
▪ The royal tabard was soaked in blood.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tabard

Tabard \Tab"ard\, n. [OE. tabard, tabart; cf. Sp. & Pg. tabardo, It. tabarro, W. tabar, LGr. ?, LL. tabardum.] A sort of tunic or mantle formerly worn for protection from the weather. When worn over the armor it was commonly emblazoned with the arms of the wearer, and from this the name was given to the garment adopted for heralds. [Spelt also taberd.]

In a tabard he [the Plowman] rode upon a mare.
--Chaucer.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tabard

c.1300 (late 13c. as a surname), from Old French tabart "simple sleeveless overtunic," also "heavy overmantel" (12c.), of unknown origin; Diez suggests Latin tapete "figured cloth." Compare Medieval Latin tabardum, early Spanish tabardo, Italian tabarro. Originally a coarse, sleeveless upper garment worn by peasants and others who worked out-of-doors; later a knight's surcoat (hence the name of the tavern in "Canterbury Tales").

Wiktionary
tabard

n. 1 A silk banner attached to a bugle or trumpet. 2 A woman's or girl's sleeveless jerkin or loose overgarment. 3 (context obsolete English) A sleeveless garment made of coarse cloth formerly worn outdoors by the common people. 4 (context obsolete English) A cape or tunic worn by a knight, emblazoned with the coat of arms of his king or queen on the front. 5 (context obsolete English) A similar garment officially worn by a herald and emblazoned with his sovereign's coat of arms.

WordNet
tabard

n. a short sleeveless outer tunic emblazoned with a coat of arms; worn by a knight over his armor or by a herald

Wikipedia
Tabard

A tabard is a short coat common for men during the Middle Ages. Generally used while outdoors, the coat was either sleeveless or had short sleeves or shoulder pieces. In its more developed form it was open at the sides; and it could be worn with or without a belt. Though most were ordinary garments, often workclothes, tabards might be emblazoned on the front and back with a coat of arms ( livery), and in this form they survive now as the distinctive garment of officers of arms.

In modern British usage, the term has been revived for what is known in American English as a cobbler apron: a lightweight open-sided upper overgarment, of similar design to its medieval and heraldic counterpart, worn in particular by workers in the catering, cleaning and healthcare industries as protective clothing, or outdoors by those requiring high-visibility clothing.

Tabard (disambiguation)

A tabard is a short coat which was a common item of men's clothing in the Middle Ages.

Tabard may also refer to:

  • Tabard, British English for a cobbler apron
  • HMS Tabard (P342), a British submarine
  • Tabard Theatre, a pub theatre in Chiswick
  • The Tabard (Chiswick), a public house in Chiswick
  • The Tabard, a public house in Southwark
  • The Tabard (fraternity), a Dartmouth College Greek organization
  • Tabard RFC is a rugby union football club based at Radlett, Hertfordshire

Usage examples of "tabard".

Finally he drew on a sort of short cyclas or tabard of richly embroidered dark green velvet It was seamed from waist to hips and cut off short there, exposing the full length of his legs.

And an extraordinary one at that, for instead of a gown she wore close- fitting doeskin breeches beneath a green tabard edged in white.

A great rug pelted the floor, a monster tabard woven of gold, brown, bronze, two tones of green, fuscous red and smalt blue.

There were servants in the room too, young men and women in tunics and tabards of gorgeous watered silks, or in fantastic uniforms of red leather kilts, golden cuirasses inlaid with intricate designs of black mother-of-pearl and plumed helmets that almost doubled their height, armed with ornately decorated gisarmes, pole-axes and sarissas which they held grounded before them.

All were dressed in red tabards belted over armor, except for the general himself.

All were in full costume, kirtled and tabarded miniatures of their elders, and even the very youngest among them spoke the League talk as fluently as the adults, and more naturally.

Viewing of Antique Tabards, an annual pageant of Phanes wearing sumptuous garments took place in the Great Rotunda to the north of the central plaza.

The Viewing of Antique Tabards was an occasion more for the viewing of Phanes than the Tabards, though these, woven of Phanegauze, were of intricate beauty in themselves.

We traveled wearing our tabards, but at our last lodging in Essex I dressed myself in my black and gold suit and put powder on my face, it still appearing rather poxy with some measle encrustations upon it.

As Vandene and her companions turned aside down another hallway, Reene Harfor appeared out of a side corridor right in front of Elayne, a stout, quiet woman with a graying bun atop her head and an air of regal dignity, her formal scarlet tabard with the White Lion of Andor as always looking freshly ironed.

Vandene and her companions turned aside down another hallway, Reene Harfor appeared out of a side corridor right in front of Elayne, a stout, quiet woman with a graying bun atop her head and an air of regal dignity, her formal scarlet tabard with the White Lion of Andor as always looking freshly ironed.

Mumbling, Yule flips the tabard onto the floor near Linnix, frowning down at his dirty boots.

Behind these came two pursuivants-at-arms in tabards, and following them a party of a dozen more bannerets and barons.

Like Hegarty he wore a brimless cap of black velvet with matching mantle and tabard, except that his pockets and hems were trimmed with grey.

I apologised to Herr Hummel, who had wisely put on his tabard, informing him that in summer the place was very pleasant and expressing my hope that he would return to visit me during that kinder season.