Definitions for gaberdines

gaberdines gab·er·dine

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

Gaberdines is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 1058 anagrams from letters in gaberdines (abdeeginrs).

Definitions for gaberdines

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 gaberdines

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 gaberdines

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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