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gaberdine
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Word definitions for gaberdine in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gaberdine \Gab`er*dine"\, n. See Gabardine .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Best take his gaberdine mac, though. ▪ He had a heavy moustache and wore a brown gaberdine suit that didn't fit too well. ▪ Her thick red hair rested just below her shoulders on the blue gaberdine and her grey eyes stared back ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A long cloak.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A gaberdine or gabardine is a long, loose gown or cloak with wide sleeves , worn by men in the later Middle Ages and into the 16th century. In The Merchant of Venice , William Shakespeare uses the phrase "Jewish gaberdine" to describe the garment worn by ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"long, loose outer garment," 1510s, from Spanish gabardina , which Watkins says is from Middle French galverdine , from a Germanic source such as Middle High German wallevart "pilgrimage" (German Wallfahrt ) in the sense of "pilgrim's cloak." The compound ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles [syn: duster , gabardine , smock , dust coat ]
Usage examples of gaberdine.
Ralph heeded him little, but ever looked through the hall-dusk on those twain, who presently arose and went toward the hall door, but when they were but half-way across the floor a chamberlain came in suddenly, bearing candles in his hands, and the light fell on those guests and flashed back from a salade on the head of the big man, and Ralph saw that he was clad in a long white gaberdine, and he deemed that he was the very man whom he had seen last in the Great Place at Higham, nigh the church, and before that upon the road.
The Christchurch townsfolk stood huddled about the Bridge of Avon, the women pulling tight their shawls and the men swathing themselves in their gaberdines, while down the winding path from the castle came the van of the little army, their feet clanging on the hard, frozen road.
There are more breastplates than gaberdines to be seen, I promise you.
It is easy, then, in fancy, to people these silent canals with plumed gallants and fair ladies--with Shylocks in gaberdine and sandals, venturing loans upon the rich argosies of Venetian commerce--with Othellos and Desdemonas, with Iagos and Roderigos--with noble fleets and victorious legions returning from the wars.