- a cloth of wool, cotton, rayon, etc. twilled on one side and having a fine, diagonal weave, used for suits, coats, dresses, etc.
- a garment made of this cloth
- alt. sp. of gaberdine (sense )
Origin of gabardine
variant, variety of gaberdinegabardine
gab·ar·dineWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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gabardine
noun
- A sturdy, tightly woven fabric of cotton, wool, or rayon twill. Also called gaberdine .
- See gaberdine .
- Chiefly British A laborer's long loose smock; a gaberdine.
Origin of gabardine
Alteration of gaberdineTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(usually uncountable, plural gabardines)
- (uncountable, countable) A type of woolen cloth with a diagonal ribbed texture on one side.
- The merchant found gabardines with finer ribs sold better here
- (uncountable, countable) A similar fabric, made from cotton
- (countable) A gaberdine (garment)
- (countable) A yellow robe that Jews in England were compelled to wear in the year 1189 as a mark of distinction
Origin
Recorded since 1904, altering the earlier gaberdine "long, coarse outer garment" (since 1520), from Spanish gabardina (perhaps influenced by gabán "overcoat" and tabardina "coarse coat"), from Middle French galverdine, itself probably from (Old or Middle) High German wallevart "pilgrimage," in the sense of "pilgrim's cloak" (from wallen 'to ambulate' + vart 'journey')
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