Modifies a noun

• mac: I wrapped it up in my blue gabardine mac - it was quite heavy.

• coat: See the man, his gabardine coat collar turned up in a desperate attempt to repel the wind and the rain.

• school: We both had short hair cuts and were wearing our gabardine school macs and ankle socks!

• fabric: Thomas Burberry main claim to fame is that he invented gabardine fabric.

• suit: Tufted hair perfect shades and a grey-blue gabardine suit reputed to have graced the frame of Raymond Chandler.