gabardine

How To Use gabardine In A Sentence

• During World War II he acquired a government contract to manufacture covert and gabardine trousers.
• A good worsted wool has nap or texture, is less subject to shine, and will wear longer than gabardine.
• Gabardine is a tightly woven wool twill with a high sheen.
• I think price is an issue only when it's a basic replacement item, like a gabardine suit.
• Although gabardine is a popular fabric, it is one that shines prematurely.
• The girl wore a wide rimmed black hat full with dark lace, a black gabardine and she stood on the toes of her shinny black buckle shoes to place the rose.
• Throughout Spent, she lingers over descriptions of buttery suedes and designer creations cut from "dark blue lightweight gabardine wool. Marcia G. Yerman: Compulsive Shopping - The Closeted Addiction
• They are made of various fabrics (wool crepe, wool gabardine, cotton), but are all dry clean only.
• It was there that Paul Moriconi kept a brown leather suitcase containing a gray gabardine military tunic and matching riding pants, a khaki Italian military shirt and a woolen red dress that were claimed to have been a change of clothes in the possession of Mussolini and Petacci when they were captured. Mussolini's clothes possibly found in upstate N.Y.
• They were basically condemned to flowing tents and baggy ill-fitting gabardine outfits displayed in middle-class department stores.