Definitions for gaberdine

gaberdine gab·er·dine

Spelling: [gab-er-deen, gab-er-deen]
IPA: /ˈgæb ərˌdin, ˌgæb ərˈdin/

Gaberdine is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 553 anagrams from letters in gaberdine (abdeeginr).

Definitions for gaberdine

noun

  1. Also, gabardine. a long, loose coat or frock for men, worn in the Middle Ages, especially by Jews.
  2. gabardine (def 1).

Origin of gaberdine

1510-20; Middle French gauvardine, gallevardine Spanish gabardina, perhaps a conflation of gabán (≪ Arabic qabā men's overgarment) and tabardina, diminutive of tabardo

Examples for gaberdine

A picturesque grey-headed and grey-bearded old Jew, in a shovel-hat and gaberdine.'

When I last saw you your gaberdine was out at elbows, and now you sail in your own gondola.

The helper then threw off his gaberdine, and showed himself to be St. George.

They had dressed him in a gaberdine and set the yellow cap on his shaven poll.

He spread out the skirts of his gaberdine and pirouetted between the lines of tethered horses.

A shrivelled arm, a dropsied leg, were to Ribera what a breast-plate and a gaberdine were to Rembrandt.

He had, moreover, seen the Triller's gaberdine hanging in the monastery at Ebersdorf.

Did these Yankee ignoramuses suppose he did not share their aversion from the gaberdine or the three brass balls?

Word Value for gaberdine
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