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gab·er·dine

(găb′ər-dēn′, găb′ər-dēn′)

1. A long, coarse cloak or frock worn especially by Jews during the Middle Ages. Also called gabardine.

2. Chiefly British A laborer's long loose smock.

3. See gabardine.

[Obsolete French gauvardine, from Old French galvardine, perhaps from Middle High German wallevart, pilgrimage : wallen, to roam (from Old High German wallōn; see wel- in Indo-European roots) + vart, journey (from Old High German, from faran, to go; see per- in Indo-European roots).]

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gaberdine

(ˈɡæbəˌdiːn; ˌɡæbəˈdiːn)

(Textiles) a variant spelling of gabardine

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gab•er•dine

(ˈgæb ərˌdin, ˌgæb ərˈdin)

n.

1. Also, gabardine. a long, loose coat or frock for men, worn in the Middle Ages, esp. by Jews.

2. gabardine (def. 1).

[1510–20; < Middle French gauvardine, gallevardine < Sp gabardina]

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Noun

gaberdine - a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles

dust coat, smock, duster, gabardine

coverall - a loose-fitting protective garment that is worn over other clothing

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gaberdine

[ˌgæbəˈdiːn] N (= cloth, raincoat) → gabardina f

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gaberdine

[ˌgæbəˈdiːn] n (material) → gabardine m; (coat) → (soprabito di) gabardine

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One morning the tramp docked at Alexandria, and from the deck he looked at the city, white in the sunlight, and the crowd on the wharf; he saw the natives in their shabby gabardines, the blacks from the Soudan, the noisy throng of Greeks and Italians, the grave Turks in tarbooshes, the sunshine and the blue sky; and something happened to him.

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"Debate with no man hast thou, With questions art never perplexed, As tame at the first sight as now, In thy plain russet gabardine dressed." ...

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The mean and low, yet strangely man-like expression of his wilted countenance; the prying and crafty glance, that showed him ready to gripe at every miserable advantage; his enormous tail (too enormous to be decently concealed under his gabardine), and the deviltry of nature which it betokened,--take this monkey just as he was, in short, and you could desire no better image of the Mammon of copper coin, symbolizing the grossest form of the love of money.