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What (who) is gabardine - definition
TOUGH, TWILL-WOVEN CLOTH, ORIGINALLY OF FINE WORSTED YARN, NOW ALSO OF SYNTHETICS
Gabardeen; Gabardine (fabric); Gabardine fabric; Poly/cotton
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gabardine
(gabardines)
Note: in BRIT, also use 'gaberdine'
1.
Gabardine is a fairly thick cloth which is used for making coats, suits, and other clothes.
N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl, oft N n
2.
A gabardine is a coat made from gabardine.
N-COUNT
Gabardine
·noun ·Alt. of Gaberdine.
gaberdine
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LONG, LOOSE GOWN OR CLOAK WITH WIDE SLEEVES, WORN BY MEN IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES AND INTO THE 16TH CENTURY
[?gab?'di:n, 'gab?di:n]
(also gabardine)
¦ noun
1. a smooth, durable twill-woven worsted or cotton cloth.
Brit. a raincoat made of gaberdine.
2. historical a loose, long upper garment worn particularly by Jews.
Origin
C16: from OFr. gauvardine, earlier gallevardine, perh. from Mid. High Ger. wallevart 'pilgrimage' and orig. 'a garment worn by a pilgrim'.
Wikipedia
Gabardine
Gabardine is a durable twill worsted wool, a tightly woven fabric originally waterproof and used to make suits, overcoats, trousers, uniforms, windbreakers, outerwear and other garments.
Examples of use of gabardine
1. One, who favors black–and–white wingtips and gabardine jackets, is a dentist.
2. He ordered it in cavalry twill and when it came in, workshop had done it in gabardine.
3. Anyway, here is a day in the life from last week, which sort of sums up what I do do: I‘m in old gabardine shorts and unfashionable trainers.
4. Of course it‘s always sunny in memory, but there‘s that photograph of me digging, wrapped in a gabardine mac with the hood up ... brrr.
5. Rendered in smart gray or black gabardine, they were paired with rough workmen‘s boots that gave the look an unexpected edge.